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camopalli.

Headword: 
camopalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a dark purple color (see Molina); or, brown (Florentine Codex)

IPAspelling: 
kɑmohpɑːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

camopalli. color morado escuro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

camopalli = brown (Anderson and Dibble translation), "a medium used for... painting" [and writing (SW)]
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 221v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/221v/images/0 . Accessed 4 January 2026.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Camopaltic = Morado
Antonio Vázquez Gastelu, Arte de lengua mexicana (Puebla de los Angeles, México: Imprenta Nueva de Diego Fernández de León, 1689), 32r.

themes: 
Colors
Writing, Literacy