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Letter C/CH: Displaying 801 - 820 of 5795

capollah.

Orthographic Variants: 
capullah, capulla

land planted in cherry trees (or cherry-like fruit trees)

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capolmecatl.

kɑpolmekɑtɬ

a type of bindweed, vine (see Karttunen)

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capoloctli.

Orthographic Variants: 
capuloctli

wine or liquor made from cherries (or cherry-like fruit)

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capolocuilin.

Orthographic Variants: 
capolocuili

a type of caterpillar that makes cocoons in the native "cherry" trees (capolin); the caterpillar is also called the ahuatl; they eat the greenery off the trees; they are not edible
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 103r, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/103r Accessed 7 November 2025.

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capoltic.

kɑpoltik

black, dark (see Karttunen)

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capōn.

castrated and fattened pig.
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Capopolihuiz

a name, attested male in 16th-c. Mexico City (see attestations)

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capote.

Orthographic Variants: 
capoti, cabute

a cape with sleeves, or one that flies around less than a regular cape; a coat

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capotzahui.

Orthographic Variants: 
caputzaui, caputzahui

to become, end up, or turn out black (see Molina)

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capotzahuiliztli.

Orthographic Variants: 
caputzauiliztli, caputzahuiliztli

the blackness of something that has become increasingly black (see Molina)

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capotzauhqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
caputzauhqui

a black thing (see Molina)

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capotzehui.

kɑpotseːwi
Orthographic Variants: 
capotzēhui

to turn black (see Karttunen)

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capotztic.

kɑpotstik

black (see Molina and Karttunen)

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capotztictototl.

kɑpotstiktoːtotɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
capotztictōtotl

cowbird, grackle (see Karttunen)

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capricornio.

Capricorn, a zodiac sign
(a loanword from Spanish/Latin)

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 128–129.

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Capricornio.

Orthographic Variants: 
capricornos

capricorn, a sign of the zodiac; actually, originally a loanword from Latin, although possibly similar in siixteenth-century Spanish; see Lori Boornazian Diel, The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late-Sixteenth-Century New Spain (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018), 174.

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Capulloac.

Orthographic Variants: 
Capulhuac

a place name, an indigenous community in the Valley of Toluca, modern state of Mexico

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caque.

a person wearing shoes (see Molina)

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caqueque.

people wearing shoes (see Molina)

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caqui.

to hear s.t.
A.una perona, fiera y animal domestico llega a su oreja un sonido. “Una tarde prendo la radio y oigo ya la música” mo. Sonido entra en el oido de una persona, fiera y animal domestico. “Se escucha el agua cuando crece” B. se escucha.
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