machiotlatolli.

Headword: 
machiotlatolli.
Principal English Translation: 

a parable; or, a similarity (see Molina); a metaphor (see Jansen)

Alonso de Molina: 

machiotlatolli. parabola o semejanza.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 50v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

machiotlatolli = metaphors
Maarten E. R. G. N. Jansen, "Las lenguas divinas del México precolonial," Boletín de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 38 (1985), 3–14; see page 6.

themes: 
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles