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petlacoatl.

Headword: 
petlacoatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a group of serpents that are woven together like a reed mat that would cover a special seat, and sitting on it could make one into a lord, or one could have a bad fate; also called coapetlatl

Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 84v, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/84v Accessed 31 October 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
coapetlatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

petlacoatl = the scolopender, the centipede
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 161.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Furniture, Household Goods
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites