Mexico City

English

Etymology

Calque of Mexican Spanish Ciudad de México.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛk.sɪ.kəʊ sɪti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛk.sɪ.koʊ sɪɾi/

Proper noun

Mexico City

2. The capital city of Mexico.

   Synonym: (rare) Mexico

   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The New Age of Regionalism”, in The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 348:

     I went to Mexico City on April 15, 1966, to unveil a statue of Abraham Lincoln, who had been a contemporary of Mexican leader Benito Juarez and was revered in Mexico, as in so many other nations.

Descendants

• → Japanese: メキシコシティ (Mekishiko Shiti)

Translations

capital of Mexico

• Afrikaans: Meksikostad
• Albanian: Meksiko
• Arabic: مَكْسِيكُو m (maksīkū), مَدِينَة مَكْسِيكُو f (madīna(t) maksīkū), مِكْسِيكُو سِيتِي m (miksīkū sītī)
• Armenian: Մեխիկո (Mexiko)
• Assamese: মেক্সিকো চহৰ (meksikü sohor)
• Azerbaijani: Mexiko
• Basque: Mexiko Hiria
• Belarusian: Ме́хіка m (Mjéxika), Мэ́хіка m (Méxika)
• Breton: Mec'hiko (br)
• Bulgarian: Ме́ксико (bg) m (Méksiko)
• Catalan: ciutat de Mèxic f, Mèxic (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 墨西哥城 (mak⁶ sai¹ go¹ sing⁴)

  Mandarin: 墨西哥城 (zh) (Mòxīgēchéng)

• Czech: Mexiko (cs) n
• Danish: Mexico City
• Dutch: Mexico (nl) n, Mexico-Stad n
• Esperanto: Meksikurbo (eo)
• Estonian: México (et)
• Farefare: Mehiko-gãn
• Faroese: Meksikobýur m
• Finnish: México (fi), Mexico City (fi)
• French: Mexico (fr) f (cf. Ville de Mexico f)
• Galician: Cidade de México (gl) f
• Georgian: ქალაქი მექსიკა (kalaki meksiḳa), მეხიკო (mexiḳo)
• German: Mexiko-Stadt (de) n, Mexiko (de) n (dated)
• Greek: Πόλη του Μεξικό f (Póli tou Mexikó)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: Sndá'
• Hebrew: מקסיקו סיטי f (meksiko siti)
• Hindi: मेक्सिको नगर (meksiko nagar)
• Hungarian: Mexikóváros (hu)
• Interlingua: Mexico (ia), citate de Mexico
• Irish: Cathair Mheicsiceo f
• Italian: Città del Messico (it) f
• Japanese: メキシコ市 (Mekishiko-shi), メキシコシティ (ja) (Mekishiko-shiti)
• Kazakh: Мехико (Mexiko)
• Korean: 멕시코시티 (Meksikositi)
• Kyrgyz: Мехико (Mehiko)
• Lakota: Spaóla Otȟúŋwahe (literally “Mexican's city”)
• Latin: Mexicopolis, Mexicum
• Latvian: Mehiko
• Lithuanian: Meksikas m
• Macedonian: Мексико m (Meksiko)
• Malay: Kota Mexico
• Maltese: il-Belt tal-Messiku
• Matlatzinca: Imtojáti
• Mixtec:

  Alcozauca: Kǒ'yo

• Nahuatl:

  Central Huasteca Nahuatl: Mexkoaltepetl

  Central Nahuatl: Altepetl Mexihco

  Classical Nahuatl: Altepetl Mexihco

  Western Huasteca Nahuatl: Mexkoaltepetl

• Navajo: Naakaii Bikin Haalʼá
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Mexico by

  Nynorsk: Mexico by

• Persian: مکزیکوسیتی (mekziko-siti)
• Polish: Meksyk (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: México (pt) m, Cidade do México (pt) f
• Romanian: Mexico (ro)
• Russian: Ме́хико (ru) m inan (Méxiko)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мексико, Мексико Сити m

  Roman: Meksiko (sh), Meksiko Siti m

• Sicilian: Cità dû Mèssicu f
• Slovak: Mexiko n
• Slovene: Meksiko m
• Spanish: México (es) m, Ciudad de México (es) f
• Swahili: mji wa Meksiko
• Swedish: Mexico City (sv) n
• Tagalog: Lungsod ng Mehiko
• Tajik: Мехико (Myexiko)
• Thai: เม็กซิโกซิตี้ (mék-sí-goo-sí-dtii)
• Turkish: Meksika Kenti, Meksika Şehri (tr), Meksiko (tr)
• Turkmen: Mehiko
• Ukrainian: Ме́хіко (uk) m (Méxiko)
• Uzbek: Mexiko (uz)

See also

• chilango

Danish

Proper noun

Mexico City

1. Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)

Swedish

Proper noun

Mexico City n (genitive Mexico Citys)

1. Mexico City (the capital city of Mexico)