Tegucigalpa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Tegucigalpa, from Classical Nahuatl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /təˌɡuːsəˈɡælpə/[1][2], /təˌɡuːsiˈɡælpə/[3], /tɛˌɡuːsiˈɡælpə/[4], /teɪˌɡuːsiˈɡælpə/[5], /tɛˌɡuːsiˈɡɑːlpɑ/[1], /teɪˌɡuːsiˈɡɑːlpɑ/[2]
  • Audio (Southern England); /tɛˌɡuːsiˈɡælpə/:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ælpə, -ɑːlpɑ
  • Hyphenation: te‧gu‧ci‧gal‧pa

Proper noun

Tegucigalpa

  1. The capital city of Honduras.
    • 2025 February 1, Annie Correal, “U.S. Military Planes Deliver Deportees to Honduras”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 2 February 2025:
      But on Friday, a U.S. Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.

Translations

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Tegucigalpa”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Tegucigalpa”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  3. ^ Colin McIntosh, editor (2013), “Tegucigalpa”, in Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 4th edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, reproduced in the Cambridge English Dictionary website, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  4. ^ Tegucigalpa”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  5. ^ Tegucigalpa”, in Google Dictionary, 12 November 2025 (last accessed).

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛɡusɪɡalpa]

Proper noun

Tegucigalpa f (relational adjective tegucigalpský)

  1. Tegucigalpa (the capital city of Honduras)

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛ.ɡu.siˈɡal.pa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -alpa
  • Syllabification: Te‧gu‧ci‧gal‧pa

Proper noun

Tegucigalpa f

  1. Tegucigalpa (the capital city of Honduras)

Declension

References

Portuguese

Etymology

From Spanish Tegucigalpa, from Classical Nahuatl.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /te.ɡu.siˈɡaw.pɐ/ [te.ɡu.siˈɡaʊ̯.pɐ]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɨ.ɡu.siˈɡal.pɐ/ [tɨ.ɣu.siˈɣaɫ.pɐ]

Proper noun

Tegucigalpa f

  1. Tegucigalpa (the capital city of Honduras)

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Tegucigalpa, from Classical Nahuatl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ceɡut͡siɡalpa/, [ˈceɡut͡siɡalpa]
  • Rhymes: -alpa
  • Hyphenation: Te‧gu‧ci‧gal‧pa

Proper noun

Tegucigalpa f (genitive singular Tegucigalpy, declension pattern of žena)

  1. Tegucigalpa (the capital of Honduras)

References

  • Tegucigalpa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl, though the exact word is unknown.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tegucigalpa f

  1. Tegucigalpa (the capital city of Honduras)
    Synonyms: Tegus, (nickname) Teguz

Derived terms