1. nahua profession that is in charge of various ceremonies, including “tlatlacualtiah.” 2. person who customarily lays flowers in a church or before an altar in order to give thanks for a good harvest.
a personal name (attested as female and male), (Tepetlaoztoc, mid-sixteenth century) Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 75.
also, the name of a mythical creature (an iguana or a lizard) in Mictlan (the land of the dead) Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer (2004), citing Sahagún, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/xochitonal
(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.
special staffs of authority made of flowers, or decorated with flowers
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 482–483.
a place name, one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.