N | Nahuatl Dictionary

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nochehuatl.

Orthographic Variants:

nocheuatl

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nocheztli.

Orthographic Variants:

nochiztli

cochineal, an insect that grows on nopal cacti and forms a red dye

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Nochhuetl.

Orthographic Variants:

Nochvetl, Nohvetl, nochuetl, Nochhue

a person's name, fairly common in the sixteenth century in what is now the state of Morelos (attested as male); also seen near Tetzcoco and Huexotzinco (also attested male); the name may translate "ideal bean," as seen in Cheryl Claassen and Laura Ammon, Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (2022), citing a census of 1530.

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Nochhuetzin.

a child of Tlacateotzin (ruler of Tlatelolco) and Tlacateotzin's sister-wife, Tzihuacxochitzin

(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, 112–113.

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nochi.

notʃi

Orthographic Variants:

mochi, nochtia

all

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nochi.

1. all. 2. those members of group who fulfill a certain criterion.

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nochilia.

noːtʃiliɑ

to call someone for someone (applicative of nōtza)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 227.

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nochipa.

notʃipɑ

forever (see Karttunen)

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nochipa.

always.

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nochiznopalli.

the nopal cactus upon which cochineal is raised (see attestations)

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nochoctli.

noːtʃoktɬi

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nochtli.

noːtʃtɬi

the fruit of the prickly pear cactus (tuna in Spanish)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 227.

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nochtototl.

a bird, a house finch

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nochuān.

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nochxochitl.

the flower of the fruit of the prickly pear cactus, or simply the flower of the nopal cactus

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. 197v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/197v/images/8811ecf9-... . Accessed 29 November 2025.

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