to go over to the other side in war; in a Florentine Codex passage, to take on the appearance of the other side
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.
ruler of Tilihcan Tlacopan; father of Miyahuaxochtzin and Matlalxochitzin (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, 82–83.
a flayed human skin Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 9: The Merchants", fol. 6v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/9/folio/6v/images/0 Accessed 27 August 2025.
a personal name; e.g. a ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan; son of Huitzilihuitl and grandson of Acamapichtli (who was the first ruler of Tenochtitlan); Tlacaeleltzin held the title cihuacoatl; he married a noblewoman from Amaquemecan named Maquiztzin, and she was a daughter of Huehue Quetzalmazatzin Chichimeca teuhctli, a ruler of Itztlacozauhcan Amaquemecan; their child was Tlilpotocatzin, who also became a cihuacoatl (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, 108–109.