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Caxambas, A Florida Geographic Name

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

William A. Read
William A. Read*
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Louisiana State University
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Caxambas Pass is the name of a stream that divides Marco Island from Cape Romano, off the southwestern coast of Florida. A modern hamlet on the island is also called Caxambas. The stream was formerly designated as a bay, and the variant Caximbas was likewise applied to a river on the mainland in this vicinity.

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Language , Volume 16 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1940, pp. 210 - 213
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Copyright © 1940 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 See A. Malaret, Vocabulario de Puerto Rico (n.d.) 114; Diccionario de Americanismos2 (San Juan, 1931) 89, 90, 91: palo cachumba (Cuba and Puerto Rico) as a variant of palo cachimba (Rauwolfia).

2 C. Gagini, Dicc. de Costarriqueñismos (San José de Costa Rica, 1919) 79.

3 The Territory of Florida 33.

4 Africa and the Discovery of America (Philadelphia, 1920) 1.112-3.

5 O Elemento Afro-negro na Lingua Portuguesa (Rio, 1933) 110-1.

6 See D. C. Scott, Cyclopaedic Dictionary of the Manganja Languages (Edinburgh, 1892) 198.

7 P. J. Calloc'h, Vocabulaire Français-Gmbwaga ... (Paris, 1911) 160.

8 Dice. Etimolójico de las Voces Chilenas ... (Santiago de Chile, 1910) 1.157.

9 Dicc. de Americanismos2 88.

10 Cf. D. S. Jordan and B. W. Evermann, The Nature Library (New York, 1905) 5.253.

11 Raimundo, O Elemento Afro-negro 110, 111, 120.

12 Cf. Raimundo 120; A. Meillet and M. Cohen, Les Langues du Monde (Paris, 1924) 585.

13 Cf. N. Tomás, Manual de Pronunciación4 (Madrid, 1932) 140. He sanctions [ks] for x in 'dicción culta y enfática'.