tocamaxacualli.

Headword:

tocamaxacualli.

Principal English Translation:

a type of spider (Molina); or, a tarantula (Florentine Codex, which includes a painting that looks more like a spider than a tarantula)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 93v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/93v/images/4f39bb78-2... Accessed 3 November 2025.

Orthographic Variants:

tocamaxaqualli

Alonso de Molina:

tocamaxaqualli. cierta araña.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 148r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.