temetztepilolli.

Headword:

temetztepilolli.

Principal English Translation:

a plomb bob, a mason's tool
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 17r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/17r/images/0 Accessed 5 September 2025.

IPAspelling:

temeːtstepiloːlli

Alonso de Molina:

temetztepilolli. plomada de albañi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 98r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

See an image that represents temetztepilolli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Occupations, Responsibilities

Technology, Tools