Principal English Translation:
a wooden flute (see attestations)
Attestations from sources in English:
cuauhpitzalli = wooden flute; cuauhilacapitztli = wooden fife; European musical instruments being called by Nahuatl names (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 12, fol. 47r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/12/folio/47r?spTexts=&nhTexts= . Accessed 17 February 2026.