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tetzicatl.

Headword: 
tetzicatl.
Principal English Translation: 

impotent

Sarah Cline, "The Book of Tributes: The Cuernavaca-region Censuses," in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.

Alonso de Molina: 

tetzicatl. esteril, que no engendra hijos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 111r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

This might also mean sterile or be an indicator of childlessness, but Cline believes it is a reference to sexuality. She finds it mentioned in the early sixteenth-century censuses of Morelos in association with men, two of whom were heads of households and one was a dependent in the household of another man.

themes: 
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction