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icpitl.

Headword: 
icpitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a firefly (see Molina); the DFC shows an icpitl coquitl (image and description)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 106v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/106v/images/0 Accessed 10 November 2025. See also folio 107r, which shows another icpitl, an icpitl ocuilton, an icpitl azcapapalotl, and an icpitl azcapapalotontli.

IPAspelling: 
ikpitɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

icpitl. luciernaga.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 33v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Fire, Tobacco, Incense
See also: 
coquitl.