Mexico

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Mexico

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Mexico

Alternative forms

México, Mehico

Etymology

From Spanish México, from Classical Nahuatl Mēxihco, a place-name referring to the Mēxihcah (Mexica/Aztecs).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛk.sɪ.kəʊ/
- (UK, less commonly) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.hi.kəʊ/
(US) enPR: mĕkʹ-sĭ-kō, IPA^(key): /ˈmɛk.sɪ.koʊ/
- (US, less commonly) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.hi.koʊ/
Audio (US): (file)
Hyphenation: Mex‧i‧co

Proper noun

Mexico

A country in North America, located south of the United States, and northwest of Guatemala and Belize from Central America. Official name: United Mexican States.
(rare) Ellipsis of Mexico City, the capital city of Mexico.
Ellipsis of State of Mexico, a state of Mexico. Capital: Toluca.
Synonym: Edomex
A municipality of the province of Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines.
A census-designated place in Jefferson Township, Miami County, Indiana, United States.
An unincorporated community in Crittenden County, Kentucky, United States.
A town in Oxford County, Maine, United States.
An unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland, United States.
An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Maryland, United States.
A city, the county seat of Audrain County, Missouri, United States.
A town and village in Oswego County, New York, United States.
An unincorporated community in Tymochtee Township, Wyandot County, Maryland, United States.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Walker Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, United States.
An unincorporated community in Montour County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A former unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, United States, now submerged under Lake Tawakoni.

Descendants

→ 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

Translations

country

Acehnese: Meksiko
Adyghe: Мексикэ (Meksikɛ)
Afrikaans: Meksiko
Albanian: Meksikë f, Meksika (sq) f (definite), Mesik m
Amharic: ሜክሲኮ (meksiko)
Antillean Creole:
Guadeloupean Creole: Meksik m

Martinican Creole: Meksik m
Arabic: الْمَكْسِيك (ar) f (al-maksīk)
Egyptian Arabic: الميكسيك (el-meksīk)

Hijazi Arabic: المكسيك f (al-maksīk)

Moroccan Arabic: المكسيك f (el-miksīk)
Aragonese: Mexico m
Armenian: Մեքսիկա (Mekʻsika)
Assamese: মেক্সিকো (meksikü)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܹܟܣܝܼܩܘܿ f (meksīqo)
Asturian: Méxicu (ast) m
Aymara: Mïxiku
Azerbaijani: Meksika (az)
Bambara: Mɛkisiki
Bashkir: Мексика (Meksika)
Basque: Mexiko
Bavarian: Mexiko
Belarusian: Ме́ксіка f (Mjéksika), Мэ́ксыка f (Méksyka) (Taraškievica)
Bengali: মেক্সিকো (bn) (mekśikō)
Bikol Central: Mehiko
Bishnupriya Manipuri: মেক্সিকো
Bislama: Mexico
Breton: Mec'hiko (br)
Bulgarian: Ме́ксико (bg) n (Méksiko)
Burmese: မက္ကဆီကို (makka.hcikui)
Carpathian Rusyn: Мексіко n (Meksiko)
Catalan: Mèxic (ca) m
Cebuano: Mehiko
Central Kurdish: مەکسیک (meksîk)
Chavacano: México
Chechen: Мексика (Meksika)
Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏍᏆᏂᎢ (anisquanii)
Cheyenne: Meško
Chinese:
Cantonese: 墨西哥 (mak⁶ sai¹ go¹)

Hakka: 墨西哥 (Me̍t-sî-kô)

Hokkien: 墨西哥 (Be̍k-se-ko, Bia̍k-se-ko)

Mandarin: 墨西哥 (zh) (Mòxīgē)
Chuvash: Мексика (Meksik̬a)
Cornish: Meksiko
Corsican: Messicu
Crimean Tatar: Meksika
Czech: Mexiko (cs) n
Danish: Mexico (da) n
Dhivehi: މެކްސިކޯ (mek̊sikō)
Dutch: Mexico (nl) n
Dzongkha: མེཀསི་ཀོ་ (meksi ko)
Esperanto: Meksiko (eo), Meksikio (eo)
Estonian: Mehhiko (et)
Ewe: Mexico
Extremaduran: Méjicu
Farefare: Mesiko, Mehiko
Faroese: Meksiko n
Fiji Hindi: Mexico
Finnish: Meksiko (fi)
Franco-Provençal: Mexique m
French: Mexique (fr) m
Friulian: Messic m
Galician: México (gl) m
Georgian: მექსიკა (ka) (meksiḳa)
German: Mexiko (de) n
Rhine Franconian: Mexiko n (Palatine)
Greek: Μεξικό (el) n (Mexikó)
Ancient Greek: Μεξικόν n (Mexikón)
Greenlandic: Mexico
Guaraní: Méjiko
Gujarati: મેક્સિકો (meksiko)
Haitian Creole: Meksik
Hausa: Mexico, Makasiko
Hawaiian: Mekiko
Hebrew: מֶקְסִיקוֹ (he) f (meksiko)
Hindi: मेक्सिको (hi) m (meksiko)
Hungarian: Mexikó (hu)
Icelandic: Mexíkó (is) n
Ido: Mexikia (io)
Ilocano: Mexico
Indonesian: Meksiko (id)
Interlingua: Mexico (ia)
Inuktitut: ᒦᒃᓰᖂ (miiksiiqoo), miiksiiquu
Inupiaq: Mexiqo
Irish: Meicsiceo m, Stáit Aontaithe Mheicsiceo m pl
Italian: Messico (it) m
Japanese: メキシコ (ja) (Mekishiko) (墨西哥 (ja))
Javanese: Mèksiko
Kabardian: Мексикэ (Meksikɛ)
Kabyle: Miksik, Meksik
Kalenjin: Meksiko
Kannada: ಮೆಕ್ಸಿಕೋ (meksikō)
Kapampangan: Mexico
Karachay-Balkar: Мексика (Meksika)
Kazakh: Мексика (kk) (Meksika)
Khmer: ម៉ិចស៊ិក (məcsɨk)
Kikuyu: Meksiko
Komi-Zyrian: Мексика (Mekśika)
Korean: 멕시코 (ko) (Meksiko), 메히꼬 (ko) (Mehikko) (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مەکسیک (meksîk)

Northern Kurdish: Meksîk (ku)
Kyrgyz: Мексика (ky) (Meksika)
Ladino: Méxiko m
Lakota: Spaóla Makȟóčhe
Lao: ເມັກຊິໂກ (mek si kō)
Latgalian: Meksika f
Latin: Mexicum n
Latvian: Meksika (lv) f
Ligurian: Mexico m
Limburgish: Mexico (li) n
Lingala: Mexiko
Lithuanian: Meksika (lt) f
Lombard: Messich m
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: Mexico n

German Low German: Mexiko n
Luhya: Meksiko
Luo: Meksiko
Luxembourgish: Mexiko (lb) n
Macedonian: Мексико (mk) n (Meksiko)
Malagasy: Meksika (mg)
Malay: Meksiko (ms)
Malayalam: മെക്സിക്കോ (meksikkō)
Manx: Meksico
Maori: Mehiko
Marathi: मेक्सिको (meksiko)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: Мексика (Meksika)

Western Mari: Мексика (Meksika)
Mazanderani: مکزیک
Meru: Meksiko
Mirandese: México m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Мексик (Meksik)

Mongolian: ᠮᠧᠻᠰᠢᠻᠣ (mēksiko)
Nahuatl: Mēxihco (nah)
Nauruan: Meketiko
Navajo: Naakaii Bikéyah
Nepali: मेक्सिको (meksiko)
Norman: Mexique m
North Frisian: Meksikoo n
Northern Sami: Meksiko
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Mexico (no) n
Occitan: Mexic (oc) m
Odia: ମେକ୍ସିକୋ (or) (meksiko)
Ojibwe: Mek'sikoo
Oromo: Meeksikoo
Ossetian: Мексикӕ (Meksikæ)
Pangasinan: Mexico
Papiamentu: Mexico
Pashto: مېشيکو f (mešiko)
Persian:
Dari: مَکْسِیکو (maksīkō), مِکْسِیکو (miksīkō)

Iranian Persian: مِکْزیک (fa) (mekzik)
Piedmontese: Méssich m
Pipil: Meshijku
Pitcairn-Norfolk: Meksikoe
Polish: Meksyk (pl) m inan
Portuguese: México (pt) m
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਮੇਕਸੀਕੋ m (meksīko)

Shahmukhi: میکْسِیکو m (meksīko)
Quechua: Mishiku
Romani:
Vlax Romani: Mexiko
Romanian: Mexic (ro) n
Romansch: Mexico m
Russian: Ме́ксика (ru) f (Méksika)
Rwanda-Rundi: Megizike
Samoan: Mexico
Samogitian: Meksėka f
Sardinian: Mèssicu m
Saterland Frisian: Mexiko
Scots: Mexico
Scottish Gaelic: Meagsago
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Мѐксико m

Roman: Mèksiko (sh) m
Sicilian: Mèssicu m
Silesian: Meksyk m
Sindhi: ميڪسيڪو
Sinhalese: මෙක්සිකෝව (meksikōwa)
Slovak: Mexiko n
Slovene: Méhika (sl) f
Somali: Meksiko
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Mexiko n

Upper Sorbian: Mexiko n
Spanish: México (es) m (Méshico), Méjico (es) m, Estados Unidos Mexicanos (es) m pl, República Mexicana f, Meshico
Sranan Tongo: Meksikokondre
Sundanese: Méksiko
Swahili: Meksiko (sw)
Swazi: IMekisikho
Swedish: Mexiko (sv) n
Tagalog: Mehiko, Meksiko
Tajik: Мексика (tg) (Myeksika)
Tamil: மெக்சிகோ (ta) (mekcikō)
Tatar: Мексика (Meksika)
Telugu: మెక్సికో (te) (meksikō)
Thai: เม็กซิโก (th) (mék-sí-goo)
Tibetan: མེག་སི་ཀོ (meg si ko)
Tigrinya: ሜክሲኮ (meksiko)
Tok Pisin: Meksiko
Tongan: Mekesikō
Turkish: Meksika (tr)
Turkmen: Meksika
Ukrainian: Ме́ксика (uk) f (Méksyka)
Urdu: میکْسِیکو m (meksīko)
Uyghur: مېكسىكا (mëksika)
Uzbek: Meksika (uz)
Venetan: Mèsico m
Vietnamese: Mễ Tây Cơ (米西基), Mê-hi-cô, Mê-hi-cô Xi-ty
Volapük: Mäxikän (vo) m
Võro: Mehhiko
Waray-Waray: Mehiko
Welsh: Mexico (cy), Mecsico (cy)
West Frisian: Meksiko n
Wolof: Meksik
Yakut: Мексика (Meksika), Миэксикэ (Mieksike)
Yiddish: מעקסיקע f (meksike)
Yoruba: Mẹ́síkò
Zazaki: (Southern Zazaki) Meksika (diq)
Zhuang: Maegsaego

See also

(countries of North America) country of North America; Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America

Divisions of the United Mexican States in English (layout · text)
States: Aguascalientes · Baja California · Baja California Sur · Campeche · Chiapas · Chihuahua · Coahuila · Colima · Durango · Guanajuato · Guerrero · Hidalgo · Jalisco · Mexico · Michoacán · Morelos · Nayarit · Nuevo León · Oaxaca · Puebla · Querétaro · Quintana Roo · San Luis Potosí · Sinaloa · Sonora · Tabasco · Tamaulipas · Tlaxcala · Veracruz · Yucatán · Zacatecas
Autonomous city: Mexico City

Anagrams

exomic

Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

(Amecameca and Texcoco): Mexihko
(Milpa Alta): Mexihco
(Tlaxcala): Mexiko

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [meːˈʃí.ko]

Proper noun

Mexico (locative)

Mexico (a country in North America)
México (a state of Mexico)

Derived terms

mexicatl

Danish

Proper noun

Mexico

Mexico (a country in North America)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish México.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɛk.si.koː/
Audio: (file)

Proper noun

Mexico n

Mexico (a country in North America)
Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)

Derived terms

Mexicaan

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛk.si.ko/
Audio: (file)

Proper noun

Mexico f

Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)

Interlingua

Proper noun

Mexico

Mexico (a country in North America)

Latin

Proper noun

Mexicō

dative/ablative of Mexicum

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Mexico

Proper noun

Mexico

Mexico (a country in North America)

Derived terms

Related terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Mexico

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Proper noun

Mexico

Mexico (a country in North America)

Derived terms

Related terms

Romanian

Proper noun

Mexico

Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)

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