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chichipatic.

Headword: 
chichipatic.
Principal English Translation: 

something very bitter

IPAspelling: 
tʃitʃipɑhtik
Alonso de Molina: 

chichipatic. cosa muy amarga.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 20r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHICHIPAHTIC something very bitter / cosa muy amarga (M) [(2)Zp.151]. In one of the two attestations the vowel of the second syllable is marked long. R has related CUAUHCHICHICPAH-TLI with the internal C which is missing in this item. See CHICHIC, PAH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 49.