Aztec vs Montezuma - What's the difference?
aztec | montezuma |
A Mexica.
* 1994: , Doris Heyden (translator), The History of the Indies of New Spain
A Nahua.
* 1989: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe
Of or pertaining to the Mexica people.
Of or pertaining to the Nahuas.
Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language.
A Nahuatl (Aztec) given name, and the name of two Aztec emperors.
(1466-1520), the Aztec emperor at the time of the Spanish conquest.
As proper nouns the difference between aztec and montezuma
is that aztec is the nahuatl language while montezuma is a nahuatl (aztec) given name, and the name of two aztec emperors.As a noun aztec
is a mexica.As an adjective aztec
is of or pertaining to the mexica people.aztec
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The lords of Tlatelolco were greatly angered over this and said, one to another, "These Aztecs' believe that we are of an alien lineage. Do they not know that we are ' Aztecs like them[?]
- (= los señores de Tlatelulco, recibieron mucho enojo y pesadumbre, y dixeron entre sí mesmos: estos mexicanos' imaginan que nosotros somos de diferente generacion quellos; no saben que somo ' mexicanos ) [1867 edition]
- Although united culturally, the Aztecs thought of themselves in terms of their particular tribal affiliations: as Mexica, Tetzcoca, Culhua, Tepaneca, etc.