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México

/ˈmexiko/

proper noun/ˈmexiko/

Mexico (a country in North America); State of Mexico, Mexico State (a state of Mexico; capital: Toluca); Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)

Y en un guiño a las contribuciones del golfo de México a la economía estadounidense, Trump está “ordenando que se le cambie oficialmente el nombre a golfo de América”.

Synonyms: Estado de México, Ciudad de México

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Mēxihco, originally a toponym for the Valley of Mexico. Aside from the element -co, the Nahuatl locative suffix, the exact morphology 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 port