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coztic teocuitlatl.

Headword: 
coztic teocuitlatl.
Principal English Translation: 

gold, yellow gold (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuztic teocuitlatl
Alonso de Molina: 

cuztic teocuitlatl. oro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 27v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

quitocaque coztic teocuitlatl = buried some gold (central Mexico, 1612)
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), 230–231.

themes: 
Metals, Mining