tepetomatl.

Headword: 
tepetomatl.
Principal English Translation: 

literally, "mountain tomato," but the Florentine Codex translates this as the manzanita tree or bush
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 113v, 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/113v Accessed 11 November 2025.

IPAspelling: 
tepeːtomɑtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tepetomatl. madroño, el arbol o la fruta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEPĒTOMA-TL pl: -MEH a type of tomato / tomate de cerro (X) [(3)Xp.86]. See TEPĒ-TL, TOMA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 230.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora