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State name Language of origin Source word Meaning and notes Aguascalientes: Spanish: aguas calientes "Hot waters". When the city was first founded in 1575, it was given this name for the abundance of hot springs in the region, which still are exploited for numerous spas and for domestic use. The state was named after its capital city ...
Margarita is a feminine given name in Latin and Eastern European languages. In Latin it came from the Greek word margaritari (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, which was borrowed from the Persians. [1] (In Sogdian, it was marγārt. In modern Persian, the word has become مروارید, morvārīd, meaning 'pearl'.)
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
Margaretta is a feminine given name. It derives from Latin, where it came from the Greek word margaritari (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, which was borrowed from the Persians. [1] It is cognate with Margaret, Marguerite, and Margarita. [2] People with the name include: Margaretta Brucker (1883–1958), American fiction author
Bird's eye view of the city of Mexico, Audrian Co., Missouri 1869. Mexico is located in the central region of Missouri known as "Little Dixie," so named because of the settlement of the region by whites from border south states, intent on reproducing the ways and means of the Deep South.
Your gut may tell you Mexico, since that’s where the rocks margarita was invented back in 1942. But the frozen margarita actually dates back to 1971, when a Dallas restauranteur, Mariano ...
Antique map of New Spain also called Mexico, 1708. Anahuac (meaning land surrounded by water) was the name in Nahuatl given to what is now Mexico during Pre-colonial times. When the Spanish conquistadors besieged México-Tenochtitlan in 1521, it was almost completely destroyed.
Mexico, Missouri (Named after Mexico) Miramar, Florida (named after a town in Granma Province, Cuba, it means "sea view" or "sea-sight". There is a village called Miramar in Valencia, Spain, where could lie the origins of all the cities in America with that name, as there are registries of the town before the year 1527.) Modesto, California ...