tepozcuauhtecpantli.

Headword:

Principal English Translation:

an iron grille for a church, or an iron balcony (see Molina), inherently reflecting European influence; this may have had a pre-contact antecedent in the cuauhtecpantli, which appears frequently in hieroglyphs in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (SW)

Orthographic Variants:

tepuzquauhtecpantli, tepozquauhtecpantli

Alonso de Molina:

tepuzquauhtecpantli. rexa de hierro de yglesia o varandas de hierro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 104r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes:

Metals, Mining