day; the sun; heat, solar heat; summertime; day sign on which one was born, and by extension, someone's lot, fate, portion, or share; patrimony Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 224, note 13.
also a person's "vital power" (see Klor de Alva); or a person's "a solar-derived animating force" (see Caplan)
a day count book (see attestations) (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, 118–119.
a count of days, a Mesoamerican divinatory calendar of 260 days (to use European labels); the 365-day year count was the xiuhpohualli, with is 20-day cempollapohualli months (again in European terminology, or "veintenas" in Spanish)
one who keeps track of the days in the calendar (e.g., for the purpose of knowing the agricultural seasons) Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 29r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/29r/images/0 Accessed 10 September 2025.