Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Among the ancient Aztecs, a garden-bed assigned out of the communal land to a particular family.
- n. A cultivated field, especially a field of maize.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Miltomatl stands for a 'tomato' from the milpa, which is a polycultural agrosystem with maize and beans as main crops.
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My wife hiked up to see her milpa with its magnificent views of nearby mountains and canyons and was mightily impressed.
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When I say I go native in Chiapas I mean eating tamales and visiting indigenous villages and beautiful places, not living in a primitive hut on a mountaintop scratching out a living in my tiny milpa while taking care of 10 kids who work the streets of San Cristóbal 12 hours a day selling chiclets and hoping to survive another day.
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Corn, beans and squash: the life cycle of the milpa
Squash vine soup with corn dumplings: Sopa de guias con chochoyones
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Can't Post | Private Reply have been fishing in lago aqua milpa N of Tepic for many years and have always liked the area ..
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The village appears to be small but most people live out in the country near their milpa in small communities.
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The milpa, or cornfield, is probably the most important element in the life of the rural Mexican farmer, apart from his family ... read more cuisines culture-customs
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Corn, beans and squash: the life cycle of the milpa by
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Alberto comes from Michoacan where he raised corn on the family milpa, as his ancestors had for centuries.
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Ross ends his current chronicle in 2006 where it began - in Chiapas with the Mayan people the color of the earth and the corn, "maiz" in the "milpa" that's the core of their life.
fbharjo commented on the word milpa
The word milpa is a Mexican Spanish term meaning "field", and is derived from the Nahuatl word phrase mil-pa "to the field" (Nahuatl mil-li "field" + -pa "towards").
October 3, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word milpa
When I lived in Mexico I was told by a farmer in the state of Guanajuato that people in that area occasionally unearthed clay figurines when they plowed their milpas before planting -- that their ancestors buried in hopes of a good maize crop. I was told they rebury them so as not to disturb the gods of their ancestors.
July 24, 2010