C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 2921 - 2940 of 5795

cīloā.

1. for seeds to fall from a plant and scatter. 2. for an animal to tear s.t. up.

# tla. El cilantro empieza a salir su flor y nacen chiquitos sus hojas porque ya están grandes. “Cuando mi papá tiraba la semilla del cilantro empieza salir su flor cuando ya terminan de crecer”

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cīltehtequi.

to cut up food into little pieces.

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cima.

simɑ

to prepare the leaf of a maguey (agave) plant in order to extract the fiber (see Molina)

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cimahuia.

siːmɑwiɑ

Orthographic Variants:

cimauia

to put cimatl root in with the sap from the maguey (agave) to give it a good appearance (see Molina)

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cimapahtli.

simɑpɑhtɬi

Orthographic Variants:

cimapahtli

medicinal plant of the bean family the root of which can be used to induce vomiting (see Karttunen)

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cimarrón.

Orthographic Variants:

cimalon, cimalonti, cimalõti

an enslaved person who has run away (see attestations)

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cīmarron.

wild (as in fruit which grows in the wild).

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a plant with an edible root, or the root itself
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 215.

Clavijero (1780) says this is a medicinal root; it is a personal name in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco; and, the Digital Florentine Codex keywording team translates cimatl as "runner bean;" also called a wild potato, heartleaf horsenettle, or heartleaf nightshade (see attestations)

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cimiento.

Orthographic Variants:

simiento, çimento

foundation (see attestations)

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cinacaetzalli.

a fricassee made of hare (see Molina)

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cinātōlli.

corn gruel.

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cincalli.

sinkɑlli

corncrib (see Karttunen; see also our entry for cencalli)

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cincapōntzin.

a large ear of corn uncommenly tightly packed with kernels.

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cincel.

chisel (see attestations)

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cincoatl.

the Mexican gopher snake (see the painting in the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, f. 88v). There are three different scenes featuring this snake in the DFC.
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 88v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/88v/images/0 Accessed 3 November 2025.

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