matlaltotonqui.

Headword: 
matlaltotonqui.
Principal English Translation: 

an epidemic disease, possibly typhus; a serious bodily fever

(see attestations)

IPAspelling: 
mɑːtɬɑːltotoːnki
Attestations from sources in English: 

yn ipan in metztli omoteneuh. yquac momonaco. matlaltotonqui. iuh quihtoque. yn tlamatinime yehuatl techhuicac yni ipan in xihuitl omoteneuh yn quitocayotia planeta Marte. huey citlalli. huel ihiyo. yn cocoliztica = The said month was when matlaltotonqui broke out. The wise men said that what they call the planet Mars, a great star, governed us in the aforementioned year; it is really its emanation with the epidemic (early seventeenth century, central New Spain) Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 92–93. in yequene momanaco cocoliztli matlaltotonqui yn ipan in omoteneuh Metztli Marҫo = And finally, an illness, matlaltotonqui, broke out in the said month of March (central Mexico, 1613) Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 240–1.

matlaltotonqui = typhus
William F. Connell, After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524–1730 (2012), 243.

Hanns J. Prem questioned the translation of typhus, saying that the statement that death would set in after six or seven days would have been too soon for typhus. He further questions the equation of matlaltotonqui with the Spanish tabardillo.
Noble David Cook and William George Lovell, "Secret Judgments of God": Old World Disease in Spanish Colonial America (2001), 40.

iztac totonqui ("white fever"), matlaltotonqui ("green fever"), and atonahuiztli ("aquatic fever")
Bernard Ortiz de Montellano, Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition (1990), 158.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"les persiguen mil géneros de enfermedades, como son MATLALTOTONQUI, que es lo que decimos tabardete”, y llámanle así por las manchas que descubren en el cuerpo"
René Acuña, Relaciones geográficas del siglo XVI: México (México: Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1985), 190.