C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 1521 - 1540 of 5761
Orthographic Variants: 
cenquizca mauizotl

a complete honor; or, consummate and perfect dignity (see Molina)

worthy of being obeyed entirely (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cenquizca tlaueliloc

an entirely perverse and evil person (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cenquizca tlaçotlaloni

worthy of being entirely loved and wanted (see Molina)

senkiːskɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
zenquizca

totally; entirely; absolutely

See Molina's various examples, and: Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 114.

entirely and perfectly pure

Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 9.

Orthographic Variants: 
cenquizca qualli, cenquizcaqualli, cenquizca cualli

entirely good (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cenquizcaqualtilia, cenquizca qualtilia, cenquizca cualtilia

to sanctify someone completely (see Molina)

senkiːskɑːittɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cenquizca itta

to come to understand something very well (see Molina)

senkiːski

a perfect thing (see Karttunen); something whole and perfect (see Molina)

something whole and fine, or something not divided, not cut up

senkiːstok

for everything to be together

sentɑkɑtɬ

a bunch or clump of herbs, thistles, lettuce, or cabbage (see Molina)

senteːkɑ

to reason in favor of something (see Molina)

sentekoneːtɬ

an only child (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
centecpanuia

to plunder a woman, for many to rape her (?) (see Molina)

to guard over twenty tribute payers; as witnessed in the Matrícula de Huexoctzinc, for example, on folio 593 verso (SW)

collector and guardian over twenty tribute payers; a low-level altepetl official (see attestations and see macuiltecpanpixqui); plural: centecpanpixque

twenty people (twenty head of cattle, twenty tribute payers, etc.); singular: centecpantli (one tecpantli, i.e., one times 20)

sentekpɑntɬi

one group of twenty; often refers to things that could be organized in rows or lines; Molina gives examples of: tamemes (human carriers), houses, rocks, or horses (see Molina); can refer to twenty tribute payers; plural of centecpantli = centecpantin