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After the Mexica branch of the Aztecs. The origin of the term "Mexxica" remains uncertain. Some take it as the old Nahuatl word for the sun. Others say it derived from the name of the leader Mexitli. Yet others simply ascribe it to a type of weed that grows in Lake Texcoco. Leon Portilla suggests that it means "navel of the moon" from Nahuatl metztli (moon) and xictli (navel). Alternatively, it could mean "navel of the maguey" (Nahuatl metl).
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∙ 14y agoIt is a word of Nahuatl origin which may have two different meanings:
One says that the word "Mexihco" derives from metztli ("moon"), xictli ("navel", "center" or "son"), and the suffix -co (place), in which case it means "Place at the center of the moon" or "Place at the center of the Lake Moon". This is regarded as the "official" meaning of Mexico.
However, there is another theory that states Mexico means "Place where Mexihtli lives". Mexihtli was a secret name for the god of war and patron of the Aztecs, Huitzilopochtli.
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