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Mix⋅tec

  [mees-tek]
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–noun, plural -tecs, (especially collectively) -tec for 1.
1. a member of an Amerindian people of Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Puebla, Mexico.
2. the Oto-Manguean language of the Mixtecs, consisting of a number of highly divergent dialects.
Also, Mixteco.

Origin:
1840–50; < MexSp mixteco < Nahuatl mixtēcah, pl. of mixtēcatl person from Mixtlān (mix(tli) cloud + -tlān locative suffix, -tēcatl suffix of personal nouns)

Related forms:
Mix⋅tec⋅an, adjective, noun
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Mix·tec   (mēs'těk)   
n.   pl. Mixtec or Mix·tecs

    1. A member of a Mesoamerican Indian people of southern Mexico whose civilization was overthrown by the Aztecs in the 16th century.

    2. A modern-day descendant of this people.

  2. The language of this people.


[Spanish, from Nahuatl mixtecatl, inhabitant of Mixtecapán, a province of the Mexican empire.]
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