单词 | Zapotec |
释义 | Zapotec /zap"euh tek', zah"peuh-/; Sp. /sah'paw tek"/, n. , pl. Zapotecs, (esp. collectively) Zapotec for 1, adj. n. 1. a member of an American Indian people living in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. 2. the Oto-Manguean language of the Zapotecs, consisting of a number of highly divergent dialects. adj. 3. Archaeol. of or pertaining to a Mesoamerican Indian civilization of the Oaxaca region of Mexico c600 B.C. to A.D. 1000, characterized by a bar-and-dot system of enumeration, a calendar of Mayan derivation, ball courts, and underground frescoed tombs. [ < MexSp zapoteco < Nahuatl tzapotecah, pl. of TZAPOTECATL person from Tzapotlan (tzapo(tl) sapodilla + -tecatl suffix of personal nouns, -tlan locative suffix)] |
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