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totonca patli.

Headword: 
totonca patli.
Principal English Translation: 

a plantain used for medicinal purposes (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
totonca pahtli
Alonso de Molina: 

totonca patli. llanten.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 150v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

totoncapatli = "llantén usado en medicina (hern.). R. totonqui, patli."
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (1977), 721.

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