tepan onoc. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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tepan onoc.

Headword:

tepan onoc.

Principal English Translation:

a known person, perhaps infamous and abominable (see Molina; transl. to Engl. by SW)

Orthographic Variants:

tepanonoc

Alonso de Molina:

tepan onoc. persona infame.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

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

The negative assessment suggests a possible clergy person's filter, if this refers to someone lying down upon another (perhaps a male homosexual act). See the hieroglyph for the name Tepanonoc in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=811&st=image&r=0.306,0...

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