a fairly common personal name in the sixteenth century in what is now the state of Morelos (attested as male); perhaps translates as Blue-Green Feather
the color dark green (see Karttunen); or, the color blue-green, blue, or turquoise; also, a person's name, whether just by itself or in compounds (e.g. Matlalacatl, Matlalihuitl)
(central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, 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, 1978), 14.
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), 21 [10v.].
daughter of Tlacacuitlahuatzin, ruler of Tiliuhcan Tlacopan; she married Huitzilihuitl; together they produced the son Chimalpopoca (all according to Chimalpahin)
(central Mexico, 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, 82–85.