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cozcatia.

Headword: 
cozcatia.
Principal English Translation: 

to array oneself with gold chains and jewels (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
koːskɑtiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cozcatia. nino. (pret. oninocozcati.) arrearse con cadenas de oro y joyas.
cozcatia. nite. (pret. onitecozcati.) arrear assi a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

cozcatia (verb) = to deck with golden chains Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 153.

themes: 
Jewelry, Adornment, Accouterments