T | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter T: Displaying 11741 - 11760 of 13562

tlicuīltiliā.

to start a fire for s.o.

# una persona le prende la lumbre de otro. “Juana siempre le prende la lumbre su cuñada porque ella nada mas saca humo caudno hace la lumbre”.

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tliēhui.

for a part of one’s body to burn after coming into contact with an irritating substance.

# arde un pedazo del cuerpo de la persona cuando le haya una cosa y no le cae su cuero. “Norma le arde su mano porque le saco la semilla mucho chile cuando hicieron albóndigas”.

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tliīxnāmiqui.

to bring one’s face close to the fire.

# una persona pone su cara cerca de la lumbre cuando hace una cosa. “mi mamá no se acerca a la lumbre porque se inyecta y no quiere recaer”.

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Tlilacahua.

a practitioner of "black magic" and a liar; associated with Tezcatlipoca and Jupiter

Nicolás León, Bibliografía mexicana del siglo XVIII, v. 3, p. 407, 1906.

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a personal name, contains the elements "black" (tlil-), "reed" (aca-), and a reverential suffix; it could also have an -a- from water (atl) hiding in there (see attestations); the name also appears without the reverential suffix (-tzin)

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Tlilanhuehue.

Orthographic Variants:

Tlillaveve

a person's name (attested as male)

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tlilania.

tɬiːlɑniɑ

to draw or make lines with ink, or to outline something in black

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tlilatl.

tɬiːlɑːtɬ

a depth; an abyss of deep water

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tlilazcatl.

tɬiːlɑːskɑtɬ

the escamolera ant (the DFC includes two paintings that show these ants favor the maguey plant, and the source states that another name for them is azcamolli; this ant is similar to the tzicatl)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 95v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/95v/images/0 Accessed 4 November 2025.

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tlilchapactli.

tɬiːltʃɑpɑktɬi

a smear in writing on paper

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tlilcoatl.

tɬiːlkoːɑːtɬ

a black snake

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tlilcuahuitl.

Orthographic Variants:

tlilquauitl, tlilquahuitl

a line, stripe, streak, ray, dash, scratch, or mark (literally, black stick) (see Molina)

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tlile.

Orthographic Variants:

tlileh

one who has black [ink, for example]; this can be found in combination: tlileh tlapaleh, possessor of the black, the red, or one who paints/writes, a sage

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer 2004 who refers to the Florentine Codex; translated to English here by Stephanie Wood.

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