temolin.

Headword: 
temolin.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of beetle (DFC), possibly a black beetle (see Molina)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 106r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/106r/images/253ba519-... Accessed 9 November 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
temol
IPAspelling: 
temoːlin
Alonso de Molina: 

temolin. cierto escarauajo, o tauano.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 97v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.