Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

mopiloa.

Headword: 
mopiloa.
Principal English Translation: 

for water to spurt, or for a lot of water to fall from above (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

mopiloa. (pret. omopilo.) chorrear o caer de alto el chorro de agua
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 059v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Water