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tzicatl.

Headword: 
tzicatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of ant
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 96r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/96r/images/4fab2f19-d... Accessed 4 November 2025.

IPAspelling: 
tsiːkɑtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tzicatl. hormiga grande y ponzoñosa que pica.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 152r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZĪCA-TL pl: -MEH large stinging ant / hormiga grande y ponzoñosa que pica (M) This is abundantly attested in T and also appears in B.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 311.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Molina states that this large and biting ant is poisonous. (See below.)

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