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cuilonyotl.

Headword: 
cuilonyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a heinous crime or sin, committed by one man with another man (see Molina); i.e. homosexuality

Orthographic Variants: 
cuillonyotl
IPAspelling: 
kwilonjoːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

cuilonyotl. pecado nefando, de hombre con hombre.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 26v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh ça no ypa[n] in febrero // in cuillo[n]yotl ytech tla[n]ca Visquello clerigo p[adr]e collegio catca auh canque corte quitlalique. = Y asimismo en febrero, al clérigo Visquello se la acusó de homosexualidad, estaba como padre en el colegio y lo metieron a la Corte. (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 142–143.