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Latin
Etymology
From Spanish azteca.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Aztecī m pl (genitive Aztecōrum); second declension
- (New Latin) Aztecs
1815, Johann Severin Vater, Litteratur der Grammatiken, Lexica und Wörtersammlungen aller Sprachen der Erde nach alphabetischer Ordnung der Sprachen: mit einer gedrängten Uebersicht des Vaterlandes, der Schicksale und Verwandtschaft derselben (quotation in Latin; overall work in German), Berlin: In der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, page 150:Similitudine, quam cum lingua Cora habet, arguitur, Aztecos e septentrionali America illuc venisse- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Second-declension noun, plural only.
Adjective
Aztecī
- inflection of Aztecus:
- genitive masculine/neuter singular
- nominative/vocative masculine plural