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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
zapotec is a noun and adjective meaning "a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900
the language of the Zapotec
of or relating to the language or culture of the Zapotec people
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for zapotec come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.