tecuitlaololo.

Headword:

tecuitlaololo.

Principal English Translation:

a dung beetle (see the description and the image in the DFC)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 98v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/98v/images/f7339077-6... Accessed 4 November 2025.

Alonso de Molina:

tecuitlaololo. escarauajo negro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 93v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

Molina says this is a black beetle. (See above.)

themes:

Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.

Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)