Yucatec

American  

[yoo-kuh-tek] / ˈju kəˌtɛk /

noun

Yucatecs, plural Yucatec plural

1. a member of an American Indian people of Yucatán, Mexico.

2. Also called Yucatec Mayan.  the Mayan language of these people.

3. a native or inhabitant of Yucatán, Mexico.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Yucatecan
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Yucatec
  plural
• Yucatecs
  plural

Example Sentences

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Yucatec Yucatecs

The team of archaeologists who discovered the ruins named them Ocomtún, using the Yucatec Maya word for the stone columns found around the ancient city.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

Filmmakers hired Maya Mexican actor Josué Maychi to play a shaman and teach cast members his Yucatec Mayan language.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

“He was working in two languages that are not his first, English and in Yucatec Maya, while performing with prosthetics 15 feet underwater,” Coogler said via voice note.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

Those stars were the Pleiades—in Yucatec, tsab, or the rattle of the snake—and he told her that the cluster’s predawn appearances began as the harvest approached.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2022

I therefore determined to apply the ordinary principles of deciphering, without any bias, to the Yucatec inscriptions, and to go as far as I could certainly.

From Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 by Holden, Edward Singleton

Again, we must remember that this was no source of ambiguity to the Yucatecs, however much it may be to us.

From Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 by Holden, Edward Singleton