atlacacemelle.

Headword:

atlacacemelle.

Principal English Translation:

rebellious, unwise, crazy (see Molina); also, perverted (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants:

atlacacemele

Alonso de Molina:

atlacacemele. reboltoso desatinado y loco
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

Auh mjtoa yn aquin vncan tlacati, atlacacemelle. = And it was said that he who was then born, was perverted.
Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 4, 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, 1963), p. 429.

themes:

Behavior, Personality

Protest, Resistance