See an image that represents cihuapilli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
in cioapilli, tlaçotli, tlaçotzintli, tlaçotitlacatl, ixtilli, imacaxtli, aquêquelli = The noblewoman [is] esteemed, lovely -- an esteemed noble, respected, revered, dignified. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 45.
sancta maria de las nieues motenehua cepayauhcihuapilli = Santa Maria de las Nieves, called the snow lady. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 32–33.
yn elvicac civapili Santa Maria = the heavenly noblewoman Saint Mary
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 136–137.
yn oquichtin yvan yn civapipiltin mochintin quimotlatlauhtilizque = the men and noblewomen will be very careful
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 124–125.
cihuapilli = noblewoman (could be a reference to the Virgin Mary) (late sixteenth century, central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 11.
titechmomaquiliz. yn mocozqui yn moquetzal yn mochpochtzin yn toxhuiuhtzin yn cihuapilli = give us your necklace, your precious quetzal feather, your daughter, the noblewoman our granddaughter (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 96–97.
Auh yn nehuatl ni don Juan de Guzman niman yc nonniquani, tlapechtenco, nōnotlali, auh in iehuatzin çihuapilli yn nohueltihuatzin doña juana de guzmā: nohuetzititoc = And I don Juan de Guzman, changed my place and sat down at the edge of the bed where the lady my older sister doña Juana de Guzman was lying. (Xochimilco, 1586)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 200.
çiuapilli ixtlamati = Noblewoman: She is judicious. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 259.
yn elvicac civapili Santa Maria = the heavenly noblewoman Saint Mary
(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 136–137.
yn oquichtin yvan yn civapipiltin mochintin quimotlatlauhtilizque = the men and noblewomen will be very careful (Mexico City, 1552)
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 124–125.
cihuapilli = noblewoman (could be a reference to the Virgin Mary) (late sixteenth century, central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 11.
Auh yn nehuatl ni don Juan de Guzman niman yc nonniquani, tlapechtenco, nōnotlali, auh in iehuatzin çihuapilli yn nohueltihuatzin doña juana de guzmā: nohuetzititoc = And I don Juan de Guzman, changed my place and sat down at the edge of the bed where the lady my older sister doña Juana de Guzman was lying. (Xochimilco, 1586)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 200.
ma xicmonanamjqujli in cioapilli, in qujlaztli: auh ma itech xicmaxitili in piltontli, in conetontli, in jxuchicaltzin totecujo, in temazcaltzintli: in vncan monoltitoc, in vncan motlapialia in tecitzin, in temazcaltecitzin in iooalticitl = Aid Ciuapilli, Quilaztli, and cause the baby, the girl, to go to the xochicalli of our lord, the sweatbath, where is to be found, where guardeth the grandmother, the grandmother of the sweatbath, Yoalticitl (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), 155.
vmpa in jmjxpan diablome imjxiptlaoan: in qujntocaiotia cioapipilti, ilvica cioapipilti = there before the images of their devils whom they named Ciuapipiltin, celestial princesses (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), 161.
A "sihuapili," doña Clara Leonor, is selling "y noxolal y nomemil," (which the translator calls a "solar de tierra con mageial"); and later she refers to "yni memili." She is getting 45 pesos which she needs to get her husband out of jail. The document of sale is made in the "Billa Tolucan."(Calimaya/Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1718 or later)
Stephanie Wood collection, notes from Nahuatl documents in the file "Bills of Sale," citing Archivo General del Estado de México, RPEM 6, exp. 15, ff. 6r., 7r.