T | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter T: Displaying 12721 - 12740 of 13538

tozticuac.

Orthographic Variants:

toztiquac

the tips of the fingernails or toenails (see Molina)

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toztlac.

the saliva that we swallow (see Molina)

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part of the plumage of the yellow headed parrot, called the toztli
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer 2004, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/toztlapalcatl. Translated here to English by Stephanie Wood.

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toztlapalli.

the color yellow
Juan José Batalla Rosado, "Análisis de elementos gráficos de contenido occidental: el caso de los antroponimos nahuas," in El Arte de escribir. El centro de México: del postclásico al siglo XVII (2018), 107.

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toztlapilolli.

tostɬɑpiloːlli

yellow parrot feather pendants (central Mexico, sixteenth century)

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 87.

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toztli.

Yellow-headed Amazon parrot, adult (a bird -- see Hunn, attestations)

See the hieroglyph for yellow parrot in the Codex Mendoza.
Published in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-). https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli-mdz46r

And a painting of a toztli in the Florentine Codex:
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 23r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/23r/images/0 Accessed 16 October 2025.

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traidor.

traitor
(a loanword from Spanish)

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trapearoā.

to mop.

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trapich.

1. sugarcane mill. 2. seesaw.

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trapiche.

sugar mill
(a loanword from Spanish)

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traslado.

a copy or a translation of a document, such as a bill of sale or a testament
(a loanword from Spanish)

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treinta.

Orthographic Variants:

treita

thirty

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tributario.

Orthographic Variants:

tribotario

tribute payer
(a loanword from Spanish)

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tributo.

Orthographic Variants:

triboton, triboto

tributes, taxes
(a loanword from Spanish)

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trigo.

Orthographic Variants:

terico, trico

wheat

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trinidad.

trinity
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Trinitarios.

Orthographic Variants:

descalços

an group of friars linked to the Franciscans; also called the Redemption of Captives
(a loanword from Spanish)

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 204–205.

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trompa mayor.

a wind instrument
(a loanword from Spanish)

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trompeta.

Orthographic Variants:

tronpeta, tropeta

trumpet, horn (see attestations)

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Tultitlan.

Orthographic Variants:

Toltitlan

a place name, an indigenous community in the northeast corner of what is now the state of Mexico

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