n.
- A member of a people of central Mexico whose civilization was at its height at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century.
- The Nahuatl language of the Aztecs.
Of or relating to the Aztecs or their language, culture, or empire.
[Spanish Azteca, from Nahuatl Aztecatl, one who comes from the place of the cranes : áztatl, crane + -técatl, suff..]
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