Zapotec

 
Pronunciation: /ˈzapətɛk/

noun (plural or Zapotecs)

  • 1a member of an American Indian people living in and around Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
  • 2 [mass noun] the Otomanguean language of the Zapotec, with some 300,000 speakers.

adjective

  • relating to the Zapotec or their language.

Origin:

from Spanish zapoteco, from Nahuatl tzapoteca, plural of tzapotecatl, literally 'person of the place of the sapodilla'