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cuatezontzin.

Headword: 
cuatezontzin.
Principal English Translation: 

someone with a scraped head, closely clipped hair; a lay friar in one of the religious orders
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), 231.

Orthographic Variants: 
quateçontzin, quatezontzin, quatesotzin
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

quāitl, teçontli rough, scraped material. 231

Attestations from sources in English: 

"Los Doce" ("The Twelve") were a famous group of Franciscan friars who arrived in Mexico in 1524, but some annals remembered them as coming in earlier years: "1505 1515 acatli xihuitl nicann ipan hualmohuicaque yn teopixque matlactli homomentin quihualhuicaque yn teoyotzin yn tto Dios nican motocayotia = fray martin maldonado De balencia CosDoDio guarDian = fray franco xinmenes 1 = fray toripio motolinia 3 = fray [pitebas] 4 = fray franco De soto 5 = fray luys fuē [sareto] 6 = fray anttonio De ciudad lodrigo 7; fray garcia De sisnero 8 = fray martin De la [corinan] 9 = fray juarea 10 = fray juā de balon quatesotzin 11 = fray Andres de gorDova quatesontzin 12 = Ca yehuātin quihualmohuiquilique y tlaneltoquqilistli = sancto Euagelio (f. 8)" = "1505 1519 Reed year. Here in this year the twelve friars came. They brough the divine things (sacraments) of our Lord God. Here they are named: fray Martín Maldonado de Valencia, Custodian and Guardián; fray Francisco Jiménez, the second; fray Toribio Motolinia, the third; fray (Juan de Rivas), the fourth; fray Francisco de Soto, the fifth; fray Luis de Fuensalida, the sixth: fray Antonio de Ciudad Rodrigo, the seventh, Fray García de Cisneros, the eighth; fry Martín de la Coruna, the ninth; fray (Juan) Juárez, the tenth; fray Juan de Palos, a lay brother, the eleventh; and fray Andrés de Cordova, a lay brother, the twelfth. They were the ones who brought the Faith, the Holy Gospel."
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 5, pp. 17–18, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

cuatesontzitzintin (plural) = also appears in another set of annals, referring to Fray Juan de Palos and Fray Andrés de Córdova
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 5, p. 18, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

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Anatomy
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