Mexican

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to Mexico, its people, languages, or culture

   The gallery specializes in modern Mexican art.

2. 2
   noun

   a person from Mexico or of Mexican nationality or descent

   A Mexican engineer led the international design team.

3. 3
   noun

   historical: a member of the Mexica people, especially in older writing about the Aztec Empire

   The historian noted that older European texts often called a Mexica person a Mexican.

Borrowed from Spanish mexicano, ultimately from Nahuatl Mexihcah, the plural of Mexihcatl, 'a Mexica person,' and later analyzed as Mexico + -an. The word broadened from the Mexica to inhabitants and citizens of modern Mexico.

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