Tapanatepec

English

Alternative forms

• Tapanatepeque (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Tapanatepec, from a Nahuan language. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Proper noun

Tapanatepec

1. A town in Oaxaca, Mexico

   Synonym: San Pedro Tapanatepec

   • 1648, Thomas Gage, The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: Or, a New Survey of the West-India’s, London: R. Cotes, page 89:

     Now from Ecatepeque wee could diſcover the high mountaines of Quelenes, which were ſubject of moſt of our diſcourſe to Sanatepeque, and from thence to Tapanatepeque.

2. A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico

   Synonym: San Pedro Tapanatepec