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tlaquilqui.

Headword: 
tlaquilqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a stone mason; or one who puts stucco on buildings

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 28.

Alonso de Molina: 

tlaquilqui. encalador, assi o albañi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 134r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

tlaquilqui = the mason
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 18r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/18r/images/0 Accessed 5 September 2025.

tlaquilqui (noun) = one who plasters, a mason
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 165.

themes: 
Stones, Masonry