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nextecuilin.

Headword: 
nextecuilin.
Principal English Translation: 

a dung-heap worm (see Molina); a garbage worm (see Siméon); beetle larva or white grove (see DFC); or, a person who is a fool or crazy (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
neʃtekwilin
Alonso de Molina: 

nextecuilin. gusano de muladar, o persona desatinada y loca.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 71v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

For an image and a description, see the DFC.
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 105r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/105r/images/4eae1c30-... Accessed 8 November 2025.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nextecuilin = gusano de la basura, que está compuesto por nextli y ocuilin
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxviii.