# México
## English
### Proper noun

México
* Alternative spelling of Mexico.
** 1968, Robert S[amuel] Weddle, “Finding the Gateway”, in San Juan Bautista: Gateway to Spanish Texas, Austin, Tex.; London: University of Texas Press, →LCCN, page 3:From the capital city of México the trail pointed northward. It meandered through the rugged mountains of the Sierra Madre Oriental, out across the tablelands of the Central Plateau.
** 1968 March 20, John D[ouglas] Lynch, “Introduction”, in Genera of Leptodactylid Frogs in México (University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History; volume 17, number 11), Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas, page 505:Syrrhophus and Tomodactylus are small assemblages that occur only in southwestern United States, México, and Guatemala.
** 2009, John Annerino, “Seeing Ghosts”, in Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America’s Desert Borderlands in the New Era, Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 113:Among the worst mass deaths of immigrants in the history of the U.S.–México borderlands, thirteen Salvadoreños died in Alamo Wash in neighboring Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on July 5–6, 1980; […]
** 2016, Barry M[atthew] Robinson, The Mark of Rebels: Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence, Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 51:Consequently, it chose to eliminate any possibility of Don Antonio serving as a strong alternate authority to the function of the Junta, by placing him on the top of the list of cabecillas to be arrested and sent to México.

#### Related terms

* Puerto México

## Galician
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish México, borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Mēxihco.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛʃiko/ [ˈmɛ.ʃi.kʊ]
* Rhymes: -ɛʃiko

### Proper noun

México m
* Mexico (a country in North America)

#### Derived terms

* mexicano

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish México, borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Mēxihco.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛ.ʃi.ku/
* Hyphenation: Mé‧xi‧co

### Proper noun

México m
* Mexico (a country in North America)
* Synonym of Cidade do México (“Mexico City”) (Can we verify this sense?)

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:México.

#### Derived terms

* mexicano

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* Méjico (rare, chiefly Spain)

### Etymology

1579, from Classical Nahuatl Mēxihco, originally a toponym for the Valley of Mexico. Aside from the element -co, the Nahuatl locative suffix, the etymology of this place-name remains uncertain. It has been suggested to be derived from Mēxihtli, a name belonging to the Aztecs' patron god Huitzilopochtli, in which case the associated locative name could be interpreted as ("place of Huitzilopochtli" or “place where Huitzilopochtli lives”). Another hypothesis suggests the name to be a portmanteau of the words mētztli (“moon”) + xīctli (“navel”), hence the hypothetical original form *Mētzxīcco, meaning “place at the navel/center of the moon”, perhaps referring to the city of Tenochtitlan's position in Lake Texcoco, which was the central lake of a system of interconnected lakes whose shape was likened to that of a rabbit by the Aztecs; an animal associated to the moon. (If that is the case, then the sound of tz /t͡s/ in mētz- has been absorbed into the initial x /ʃ/ of -xīc-, while the geminate cc /kː/ in -xīcco has been transformed into the consonant cluster hc /ʔk/.) A third hypothesis suggests a derivation incorporating metl (“maguey”) (stem me-), perhaps from Mēctli, a maguey goddess, Proto-Uto-Aztecan [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmexiko/ [ˈme.xi.ko]
* Audio (Mexico):(file)
* Rhymes: -exiko
* Syllabification: Mé‧xi‧co

### Proper noun

México m
* Mexico (a country in North America)
* State of Mexico, Mexico State (a state of Mexico; capital: Toluca)
    Synonym: Estado de México
* (Mexico) Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)
    Synonym: Ciudad de México

#### Derived terms

* Ciudad de México
* Estado de México
* golfo de México
* mexicano
* mexiquense
* Nuevo México

#### Descendants

* → Dutch: Mexico
* → English: Mexico, México, Mehico
** → Assamese: মেক্সিকো (meksikü)
** → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܟܣܝܩܘ (mksiqw)
** → Burmese: မက္ကဆီကို (makka.hcikui)
** → Chinese: 墨西哥 (Mòxīgē)
** → Dhivehi: މެކްސިކޯ (mek̊sikō)
** → Finnish: Meksiko
** → Hebrew: מֶקְסִיקוֹ (méksiko)
** → Hindi: मेक्सिको (meksiko)
** → Irish: Meicsiceo
** → Japanese: メキシコ (Mekishiko)
** → Korean: 멕시코 (Meksiko)
** → Thai: เม็กซิโก (mék-sí-goo)
** → Yoruba: Mẹ́síkò
* → Esperanto: Meksiko
* → Faroese: Meksiko
* → French: Mexique
** Antillean Creole: Meksik
** Haitian Creole: Meksik
** → Arabic: المكسيك
** → Persian: مکزیک (mekzik)
** → Khmer: ម៉ិចស៊ិក (məcsɨk)
** → Norman: Mexique
* → German: Mexiko
* → Greek: Μεξικό (Mexikó)
* → Japanese: メヒコ (Mehiko)
* → Korean: 메히꼬 (Mehikko)
* → Polish: Meksyk
* → Portuguese: México
* → Slovak: Mexiko
* → Tagalog: Mehiko
* → Vietnamese: Mê-hi-cô
* → Yiddish: מעקסיקע (meksike)

### See also

* Antigua y Barbuda
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Canadá
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Estados Unidos
* Granada
* Haití
* Jamaica
* México
* República Dominicana
* San Cristóbal y Nieves
* San Vicente y las Granadinas
* Santa Lucía
* Trinidad y Tobago
Divisions of the United Mexican States in Spanish (layout · text) :
* Estados: Aguascalientes · Baja California · Baja California Sur · Campeche · Chiapas · Chihuahua · Coahuila · Colima · Durango · Guanajuato · Guerrero · Hidalgo · Jalisco · México · Michoacán · Morelos · Nayarit · Nuevo León · Oaxaca · Puebla · Querétaro · Quintana Roo · San Luis Potosí · Sinaloa · Sonora · Tabasco · Tamaulipas · Tlaxcala · Veracruz · Yucatán · Zacatecas
* Ciudad autónoma: Ciudad de México

### Further reading

* “México”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10