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Mexicano, n. and a.|mɛksɪˈkɑːnəʊ|
Also ‖ Mejicano |mexiˈkano|, fem. Mexicana, and with lower-case initial. Pl. Mexicanos.
[Sp. mexicano (now mejicano) Mexican a. and n.]
A. n.
1. a. A native or inhabitant of Mexico; = Mexican n. 1. b. A person of Mexican descent, esp. a Mexican-American.
[1706J. Stevens New Spanish & Eng. Dict. sig. Kk3 Méxicáno, a native of Mexico, or anything of that City.] 1891D. G. Brinton Amer. Race iii. 152 The name Tews,..was applied to the conquered Nahuatl population around Michoacan. In some old glossaries teco is explained by Mexicano. 1914Dialect Notes IV. 163 Mexicano, anyone from Mexico. 1929A. MacLeish Let. 11 Mar. in R. H. Winnick Lett. Archibald MacLeish (1983) 225 A Spaniard named Barrera who was fine with the cape but..couldn't kill bulls and got the rasberry (sic) from the brave Mexicanos. 1963Look 8 Oct. 68/2 Then there is the other Texas: income-poor, opportunity-poor, equality-poor for most of the state's 1.5 million slow-burning Mexicanos—Americans of Mexican descent. 1972La Luz June 61/2 In the Southwest..a Spanish Colonial who would object to being called a Mexican, frequently refers to himself culturally as a Mejicano. 1985J. A. Michener Texas vi. 321 He was a striking figure, somewhat large for a mexicano. 1986C. L. Briggs Learning how to Ask 31 Their ancestry includes a significant Native American element, but the Mexicanos consider themselves to be culturally hispanic.
2. A Uto-Aztecan language of Southern Mexico; = Nahuatl n. b.
1900Mexico (U.S. Bureau Amer. Republics) iii. 24 Linguistic Families in Mexico... Pimentel's list..Mexicana. Ibid. 25 Following the Bureau of American Ethnology in keeping the Piman as a separate family leaves the Nahuatlan free to include only Pimentel's Mexicana. 1946C. Osgood Ling. Structures Native Amer. 368 In Mexico however the term Aztec is little used, the language being called in Spanish usually Mexicano, and in Aztec itself Malsewalkopa. 1971Language XLVII. 737 The language as a whole, once called Mexicano, has been more recently referred to as Nahuatl (in some cases Nahuat). 1986J. & K. Hill Speaking Mexicano i. 1, The modern Mexicano of the Malinche Volcano towns is a syncretic language. 1991S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 99, I..said a prayer in mexicano to the old gods, an Ave María in Spanish to La Virgen, and gave thanks.
B. attrib. or as adj.
a. Pertaining to or designating a Mexicano; Mexican; Mexican-American (see Mexican a. a and c.).
b. Pertaining to or designating the Mexicano language; = Nahuatl a.
1963Look 8 Oct. 68/2 Real nice people pay a Mexicano maid $15 a week and two meals a day. 1965P. Esparza Mexicano in Valley of Magic 7 That Mexicano problem didn't come up for discussion. 1981N.Y. Times 22 May a15/4. When Mrs. Sausedo was asked why she had voted for Dr. Casso her only answer was that he was ‘Mexicano’. 1985J. A. Michener Texas vi. 321 Most of Austin's famous Old Three Hundred, the earliest anglo settlers, were content to remain mexicano citizens. 1991S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 149 All complementary forces occur in pairs. ‘Ah,’ said Flavio, ‘like the mexicano word ‘sky-earth’ for the world.’ |