caxtlahuitl.

Headword: 
caxtlahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

red oxidized iron, useful for painting or coloring something, but not very fine (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
caxtlauitl
IPAspelling: 
kɑʃtɬɑːwitɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

caxtlauitl. almagre baxo. i. no muy fino.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 13r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

caxtlauitl = a kind of ochre
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 151.

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