Principal English Translation:
sore, pimple (see Karttunen); or, a scorpion; or, all bodily organs that have a tubular shape; and, finally, children that were sacrificed were cocotl, and the hill or mountain had the same name, Cocotl
Attestations from sources in English:
A hill named Cocotl was a sacred place in child sacrifices to the rain deities. This hill was located near Chalco Atenco. One of these sacrifices (the first?) was of a person named Cocotl. He was decorated with ritual papers colored red and brown.
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 43.
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
"COCOTL “Tubo” El sexto lugar o monte, donde matavan estos njños, se llama cocotl: es un monte que esta cabe chalco atenco: a los njños que alli matavan, llamavanlos cocotl. Lib. 2, fol. 16, p. 70 r.
Pilar Máynez, El calepino de Sahagún: Un acercamiento (2014).
IDIEZ def. náhuatl:
Ce piltolontzin tlen quiza pan icuetlaxxo macehualli, tecuani zo tlapiyalli quemman ahhuayohua zo mococoa ica zarampiahtzin, tzinpochquitzin zo atotomontzin. “Alejandrina quinpiya miac cocomeh pampa quipano tzinpochquitzin huan tlahuel mohuahuana pampa ahhuayohua.”