different between community vs altepetl

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin comm?nit?s (“community; public spirit”), from comm?nis (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -it?s (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh?ts (“suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being”)). Comm?nis is derived from con- (“prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects”) (from cum (“with”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“along, at, next to, with”)) + m?nus (“employment, office, service; burden, duty, obligation”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to change, exchange”)). Doublet of communitas.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??mju?n?ti/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: k?-myo?o?n?-ti, IPA^(key): /k(?)?mjun?ti/, [k(?)?mjun??i]
• Hyphenation: com?mun?i?ty

Noun

community (countable and uncountable, plural communities)

1. (countable) A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.
2. (countable) A residential or religious collective; a commune.
3. (countable, ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
4. (countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
5. (uncountable) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
6. (countable, obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
7. (uncountable, obsolete) Common character; likeness.
8. (uncountable, obsolete) Commonness; frequency.
9. (Wales, countable) A local area within a county or county borough which is the lowest tier of local government, usually represented by a community council or town council, which is generally equivalent to a civil parish in England.

Alternative forms

• communitie (obsolete)

Antonyms

• anticommunity
• noncommunity

Hyponyms

• subcommunity

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• community at OneLook Dictionary Search
• community in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "community" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 75.
• community in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Further reading

• community on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• community (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Community (Wales) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl ?ltep?tl, from ?tl tep?tl, literally “water (and) hill”.

Noun

altepetl (plural altepemeh)

1. A Nahua community; a pueblo.

Anagrams

• pallette, platelet

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Pronunciation

Noun

altepetl

1. city.

Central Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a???te.pe?t??]

Noun

altepetl (inanimate)

1. City.

References

• Medina, Genaro. (1999) Curso de Nahuatl, University of Americas, Cholula, Puebla.

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

A contraction of ?tl tep?tl, compound of ?tl (“water”) +? tep?tl (“hill”), two constituents perceived as being essential for life.The compound is odd in retaining the l of ?tl; the usual compound would be *?tep?tl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ltepe?t??/
• IPA^(key): [a??.?té.pe?t??]

Noun

?ltep?tl (animate, plural ?ltep?meh)

1. (inanimate, not pluralized) altepetl; a town or city.
2. (animate, pluralized) The people of an altepetl.
   • 17C: Chimalpahin, Record of the Arrival of the Mexica Azteca When They Came Here to Mexico Tenochtitlan

     oncan ynpan acico yn chicuey altepeme macehualtin oncan chanonoque yn culhuacan

     (They there arrived among the people of the eight altepetl domiciled in Culhuacan)

Synonyms

• ?tl tep?tl

Derived terms

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition edition, University of Oklahoma Press, page 205
• Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Codex Chimalpahin, volume 2, edited and translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, University of Oklahoma Press, pages 18–19
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas Press, page 9
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, page 210

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Cognate to Classical Nahuatl ?ltep?tl.

Noun

altepetl (plural altepetini)

1. altepetl, city, town.

Western Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl ?ltep?tl.

Pronunciation

Noun

altepetl

1. city.