Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

copactecolotl.

Headword: 
copactecolotl.
Principal English Translation: 

sparrowhawk (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
copāctecolōtl
IPAspelling: 
kopɑːktekoloːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

COPĀCTECOLŌ-TL pl: -MEH sparrowhawk / gavilancillo (X) [(3)Xp.34]. X also uses COPĀC-TLI alone to mean ‘sparrowhawk,’ although the literal sense is ‘palate’ or ‘throat.’ See COPĀC-TLI, TECOLŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 41.