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Letter C/CH: Displaying 481 - 500 of 5795

calpohualli.

a count of houses; a census

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calpolco.

Orthographic Variants: 
calpulco

an indigenous temple (as translated from Sahagún); calpulli and calpolli are two spellings of the same root behind this term

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calpolhuia.

Orthographic Variants: 
calpulhuia

to call together everyone in the neighborhood (see Molina)

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calpollalli.

Orthographic Variants: 
calpullalli

land pertaining to the calpolli (see our entry for calpolli for its various meanings; see attestations below)

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calpollatquitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
calpolatl, calpollatqui, calpullatquitl

property of the calpulli, from calpolli or calpulli plus tlatquitl(?) (see attestations)

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calpolle.

Orthographic Variants: 
calpulle

someone pertaining to a calpolli (or calpulli); a priest; a parishioner
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

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calpolleque.

Orthographic Variants: 
calpuleque, calpulleque, calpoleque

calpolli officials
Source: 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), 143.

also, a group of Toltecas Chichimecas who arrived to setle at Cholula were called "calpolleque;" the other group was called the "calmecactlaca" (sixteenth century Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 147.

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calpolli.

kɑlpoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
calpoli, calpulli, calpuli

literally, "big house," usually a subunit of an altepetl, and earlier an egalitarian kin group with migration associations (see attestations)

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calpolpampohui.

Orthographic Variants: 
calpulpampoui, calpulpampohui, calpolpampoui

a citizen of the pueblo, or something that pertains to a certain neighborhood (see Molina)

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calpolpanpohui.

Orthographic Variants: 
calpulpanpohui, calpulpampoui, calpolpanpohui, calpolpanpoui

a person who resides in the pueblo, or something that pertains to a given neighborhood (see Molina)

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calpopochectic.

kɑlpohpoːtʃektik
Orthographic Variants: 
calpohpōchectic

house filled with smoke (see Karttunen)

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calpulleque.

Orthographic Variants: 
calpuleque

those of the parish, often the leaders

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

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calquetza.

kɑlketsɑ

to build a house or raise it up (see Molina)

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calquetzaliztli.

kɑlketsɑlistɬi

to build a house, to raise it up (see Molina)

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calquetzqui.

kɑlketski

a house builder or a mason (see Molina)

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calqui.

kɑlki

householder, resident (see Karttunen)

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caltatapach.

the assassin bug (for a compound hieroglyph containing this bug, see the Digital Florentine Codex painting)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 93v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/93v/images/158c4118-6... Accessed 3 November 2025.

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Caltecatl.

a person's name (attested as male)

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caltech.

kɑltetʃ

next to a house, to one side (see Karttunen)

next to the lower part of the wall of a building.
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caltechhuiliā.

to move s.t. up against the wall for s.o.
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