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Letter T: Displaying 4521 - 4540 of 13569

tezcatl.

teːskɑtɬ

a mirror 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), 235.

also seen to serve as a mirror image (see attestations in Spanish)

mirror or glass.
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tezcatlachco.

a type of ball game involving a mirror and the sacrifice of captives relating to the sign "omacatl" (Two Reed) (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 172, note 3.

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tezcatlahuitl.

teskɑtɬɑːwitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tezcatlauitl

fine red ochre (see Molina)

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tezcatlalli.

the powder made by grinding mirror-like stones; a polishing substance
See the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, 216r. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/216r/images/0

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Tezcatlepoca.

teːskɑtɬepoːkɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tēzcatlepōca, Tezcatlipoca

personal name, taken from Tezcatlipoca (a major deity) (see Karttunen)

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Tezcatlipoca.

Orthographic Variants: 
Tezcatlipuca, Tezcatlepoca

"Mirror's Smoke," a divine force or deity with an omnipotence, often malevolent, associated with feasting and revelry; also, a person's name (attested male)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 95; see also: "Table 3. Major Deities of the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Nahua-Speaking Communities." Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology, ed Manning Nash (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).

"The Mirror Emits Fumes."
In a post to the Association of Nahuatl Scholars on Facebook (29 May 2026) John Sullivan writes: "It's tēzcatl ihpōca 'the mirror emits fumes', probably reinterpreted as a present agentive noun in order to render the name of the deity. [J. Richard] Andrews deals with ihpōca in his grammar (2003: 269-70). Joe [Joseph Campbell] has commented on the use of ih- with verbs, meaning 'to perform an action with skill', but this is in turn related [to] the idea of breath and its function as a vehicle for the transmission of tonalli."

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tezcatontli.

a small mirror (see Molina)

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Tezcatzontecatl.

a deity of pulque (a fermented beverage made from the century plant)

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tezcuitlatic.

teskwitɬɑtik

something very white (see Molina)

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tezo.

a bloodletter (see Molina)

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tezoaloni.

an instrument for lancing human flesh for the purpose of bloodletting (see Molina)

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tezoani.

a bloodletter (see Molina)

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tezoc.

teːsoːk

a bloodletter (see Molina)

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tezoliztli.

teːsolistɬi
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tezoloctli.

Orthographic Variants: 
teçoloctli

likely a term for small plovers and sandpipers, birds (see Hunn, attestations)

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tezomoni.

tesomoːni
Orthographic Variants: 
tezomōni

to snore, to growl (see Karttunen)

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tezon tlalloa.

for the tezontlalli to be mixed or stirred with lime (see Molina)

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tezoni.

teːsoni
Orthographic Variants: 
teçoni

a lancet (see Molina)

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tezonoa.

tesonoɑ

to make something become rough, or to shave or scrape off too much hair from the head (barber) (see Molina)

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tezonpahtli.

Orthographic Variants: 
teçonpahtli

a medicinal plant used for scabies, mange, or itch

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 [8v.].

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