Tenochtitlán

American  

[te-nawch-tee-tlahn] / tɛˌnɔtʃ tiˈtlɑn /

noun

1. the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.

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Tenochtitlán British  

/ tɛˌnɔːtʃtiːˈtlɑːn /

noun

1. an ancient city and capital of the Aztec empire on the present site of Mexico City; razed by Cortés in 1521

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Example Sentences

As Cortés eyed the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, Marina participated in a kind of chain translation: She would translate Nahuatl into Mayan to a Spanish castaway who had also been a Maya slave and had learned the language.

From Los Angeles Times

Illustrations from the era show Malinche, serving as translator, as a prominent figure during Cortés’ epochal meeting with Moctezuma on Nov. 8, 1519, on a causeway leading to Tenochtitlán.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet a little more than two years later, he captured Tenochtitlán, the Aztecs’ capital, and toppled their empire.

From The Wall Street Journal

The then-president dispatched his wife — an academic of German ancestry — to Vienna on what he acknowledged was a “mission impossible”: to persuade Austria’s leaders to lend the headdress to Mexico for a one-year exhibition in 2021 marking the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlán.

From Los Angeles Times

The thought might cross your mind — I’m guilty of it, sure — but it can be chased off by imagining how it felt to witness the Dust Bowl or the French Revolution or the fall of Tenochtitlan.

From Los Angeles Times