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cemelotontli.

Headword: 
cemelotontli.
Principal English Translation: 

a small ear of corn (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

cemelotontli. mazorca tal pequeña.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 16v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

cemelotontli = mazorca pequeña
Alfonso de Rosenzweig-Díaz, Mexicanidad de México, vol. 2, 1957, 98.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking