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to reply to someone in writing (see Karttunen)

a place, building, or workshop for painting and/or writing (see attestations); in the example cited, the reference is to a painting workshop in the church

(ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 196–197.

rosewood; a type of tree with beautiful wood that appears to exhibit painting or writing
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. 115r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/115r/images/99fb59ea-... . Accessed 12 November 2025.

a tablet for writing (see Molina)

a document, a painting, or anything written or painted
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), 236.

could also refer to a design, such as was expressed in textiles, made with feathers, or carved in stone (see attestations and see the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs)

a painting or writing medium (see attestations)

the place where writing takes place (see Molina)

a false writer or painter (see Molina)

a writer's inkwell (see Molina)