a title in the military hierarchy of the Mexica (Santamarina Novillo); also, a person's name (attested as male) Carlos Santamarina Novillo, Nahuat-l Listserv post, May 1, 2007; translation from Spanish by Stephanie Wood
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 45.
women's temple (tentative) Jonathan Truitt, Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Nahuas and Catholicism, 1523–1700 (Oceanside, CA: The Academy of American Franciscan History; Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018), 18.
A female person in charge of people. Presumably, this officer, in addition to being a woman, had special responsibility for organizing or regulating women's activity, but no more is known at the present juncture. James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 44.
divine women; spirits of women who died in childbirth (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), chapter 29.
woman; wife (when possessed); also, the name of a person, attested in sixteenth-century Morelos; also, the word for uterus and possibly hymen (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)
See also zohuatl, for additional attestations.
1. woman. 2. female. 3. godmother of a boy. 4. goddaughter of a man. 5. s.o.’s wife.