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tecuilontiani.

Headword: 
tecuilontiani.
Principal English Translation: 

a practicer of sodomy

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Prímeros Memoríales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 253.

Alonso de Molina: 

tecuilontiani. el que lo haze a otro, pecando contra natura.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 93v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction