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macuilpohualli.

Headword: 
macuilpohualli.
Principal English Translation: 

one hundred (literally, five twenties) (see Molina and Siméon)

Orthographic Variants: 
macuilpoalli
IPAspelling: 
mɑːkwiːlpowɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

macuilpoalli. ciento.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 51r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yoan mamacuilpoalli cintli, in cecen tlacatl, quinextiaia = and one hundred dried ears of maize. Each man brought forth this (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 7.

ya macuilpovalli y tlacat = born a hundred days ago (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 146–147.

auh ynic oquimononochilique yn omomacac chicopa mamacuilpuali pesos = and what they talked about was that on seven occasions, 100 pesos each time was given for it
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 146–147.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

macuilpoalli = 100, lit. cinco veintes
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xlv.

Yva[n] ximaloz yhua[n] macuilpovalpa mecahuitecoz = será rapado y azotado cien veces (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 194.

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