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Zapotec definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to the language or culture of the Zapotec people n
1: a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900 [syn: Zapotec, Zapotecan]
2: the language of the Zapotec [syn: Zapotec, Zapotecan]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Spanish zapoteca, from Nahuatl tzapot?cah, plural of tzapot?catl, literally, person of (the land of) sapodillas, from tzapotl sapodilla fruit + -t?catl person (from) Date: 1843 a member of an American Indian people of Oaxaca state, Mexico