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matza octli.

Headword: 
matza octli.
Principal English Translation: 

a liquor made from pineapples (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
matzaoctli
Alonso de Molina: 

matza octli. vino de piñas dela tierra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 53v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

matzaoctli (s.) = vino de piña (r. matzatli, octli)
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), 262.

themes: 
Alcohol, Hallucinogens
Beverages