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tecuilonti.

Headword: 
tecuilonti.
Principal English Translation: 

a man who has sex with another, "sinning against nature" (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tecuilonti. el que lo haze a otro, pecando contra natura.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 93v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

franco teçacuitoc = a person's name (the glyph next to the gloss seems to show two men having sex; unclear if the glyph is trying to approximate the sound of tecuil...?) (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 96–97.

themes: 
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction