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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
See also: 
atlaca.
cemelle.