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nacazana.

Headword: 
nacazana.
Principal English Translation: 

to make something square (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
nɑkɑsɑːnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

nacazana. nitla. (pret. onitlanacazan.) poner algo en quadra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 062r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents nacazana in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Numbers, Math