ídolo. | Nahuatl Dictionary

ídolo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword:

ídolo.

Principal English Translation:

an idol, or a false idol, a pre-Hispanic deity might be called this if it was worshipped during the Spanish colonial period
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
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, 154–155.

Orthographic Variants:

ydolosme

Attestations from sources in English:

inic tiquinmottiliaya in tlateotocanime inic quinnotzaya quintlayecoltiaya in quahuitl yn tetl in Ehuillome in diablosme yn ydolosme = you saw how the idolaters called to and served wood, stones, figures made of sticks, devils, and idols (central Mexico, early 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, 154–155.

themes:

Religion (Christian)

Religion (Indigenous)

Religion (Indigenous Christianty)