Ecatepec. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

Ecatepec.

Principal English Translation:

an altepetl that turned out to be a birthplace for some Mexica rulers, pre- and post-contact; today it is a northern suburb of Mexico's Federal District, in the modern State of Mexico

(central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 104–105.

Attestations from sources in English:

Oc ce ypiltzin yn Don diego de aluarado huanitzin ytoca Don Miguel chalchiuhquiyauhtzin. Ye ompa ynin tlacat hecatepec. ynantzin in acatla cihuapilli ynin Don miguel chalchiuhquiyauhtzin oquichiuhtia yn Don xp̄oual xochicacamatzin. ynin oquichiuhtia ce ypiltzin ytoca Miguel = Another son of don Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin was named don Miguel Chalchiuhquiyauhtzin. He was born in Ecatepec. The mother of this don Miguel Chalchiuhquiyauhtzin, a noblewoman of Acatlan, begot don Cristóbal Xochicamatzin. This one begot a son named Miguel. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 104–105.

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