Aztec
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Aztec /ˈaztɛk/
▶noun
- 1 a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
- 2 the extinct Uto-Aztecan language of the Aztecs, from which modern Nahuatl is descended.
– origin from Fr. Aztèque or Sp. Azteca, from Nahuatl aztecatl ‘person of Aztlan’, their legendary place of origin.
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