Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!
Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.
xihuipatli.
Headword:
xihuipatli.
Principal English Translation:
traditional medicine (see attestations)
Orthographic Variants:
xihuipahtli
Attestations from sources in English:
The Xihuipahtli macéhual amato, also called the Badiano Codex or the Codex de la Cruz-Badiano/Badianus, and in Latin, Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, is a compendium of remedies involving medicinal plants. It was compiled and written in Nahuatl in 1552 by Martín de la Cruz. (SW)
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
Ni xihuipahtli huan nochi tlen masehualpahtli tlatemoliztli tlahuel cualli para tohuanteh ti masehualmeh, no tihpih tohuaya to itztolis..... = La medicina tradicional y todo el sistema terapéutico indígena es muy importante para nosotros los indígenas, pues tenemos nuestra propia cultura.... (contemporary Nahuatl)
IDIEZ morfema:
xihuipahtli.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés:
herbal medicine.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl:
Nochi tlamantli xihuitl tlen quipiya ipahyo. “Na nicamati niconiz xihuipahtli quemman nimococoa pampa pahtli tlen nechmaca tepahtiquetl axnechcualchihua. ”
IDIEZ morfología:
xihuitl, pahtli.
IDIEZ gramática:
tlat.