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Cuauhtlatoa.

Orthographic Variants: 
Cuauhtlahtoa

an indigenous leader who was executed by hanging; depicted in the Codex Mendoza, lam. VI, in association with the glyph for Tlatelolco
Patrick K. Johansson, "Lecturas y glosas indígenas de la primera parte del Códice Mendocino en el siglo XVI," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl, 40:13 (2010), 257.

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cuauhtlatoani.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlatoani, quauhtlahtoani, cuauhtlahtoani

literally "eagle-ruler" -- a non-dynastic, less than life-term governorship or interim ruler
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), 33.

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cuauhtlatollo.

military government (see Sahagún, attestations)

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cuauhtlatolo.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlatolo

a military government (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, 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, 1959), 2.

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cuauhtlatzacualli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlatzatzaqualli, quauhtlatzacualli

a wooden palisade or stockade (see Molina)

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cuauhtlatzacualoni.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlatzaqualoni

a lock or latch for a post (see Molina)

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cuauhtlatzacuillotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlatzacuillotl

a wooden door, made of planks (see Molina)

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cuauhtlaxichtli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlaxichtli
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cuauhtlaxillotia.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlaxillotia
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cuauhtlaxillotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlaxillotl
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cuauhtlaxoxocoyolin.

a medicinal herb, used for curing dandruff and other skin-based head ailments

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 19 [8r.].

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cuauhtlayahualo.

the wooden columns around a patio
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 119v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/119v?spTexts=&nhTexts= . Accessed 12 November 2025.

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cuauhtlaza.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlaza
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cuauhtlaza.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlaza
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cuauhtlazolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlazolli
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cuauhtlazonehualli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlazoneualli, quauhtlazonehualli
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cuauhtleco.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtleco
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cuauhtleco.

kwɑwtɬehkoː
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtlehcō

to climb up in a tree (see Karttunen)

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cuauhtlecoc.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlecoc

perched in a tree (see Molina; translation to English by Stephanie Wood)

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cuauhtlepatli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlepahtli, quauhtlepatli

two medicinal plants bear this name, one that grows or grew near Jojutla, Morelos, and one in hotter climates; one is a pain killer and one is used for skin ailments

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