a mint or herb native to New Spain (Mexico) (see Molina)
IPAspelling:
epɑsoːtɬ
Alonso de Molina:
epazotl. yerua buena desta nueua españa. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 29r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
EPAZŌ-TL epazote, a type of seasoning herb (Chenopodium ambrosiodes) / yerba buena de está Nueva españa (M) [(2)Cf.118r,122v,(1)Zp.153,(2)Xp.107]. T has absolutive –TLI, implying a variant with a stem-final glottal stop. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 78.