yellow fever (partly a loanword from Spanish, colera, cholera) (20th c., Milpa Alta) Los cuentos en náhuatl de Doña Luz Jiménez, recop. Fernando Horcasitas y Sarah O. de Ford (México: UNAM, 1979), 36–37.
a place name, spelled Culhuacan today (see Karttunen); an early successor to Tollan, the Toltec capital, and seen as a seat of civilization; this became an important altepetl in the chinampa zone, in what is today southern Mexico City
an unusual way to speak of a person of Culhuacan/Colhuacan, which was more typically called a culhua or colhua; the plural from colhuacatl would be colhuaca, but colhuaque was more prevalent for the plural