⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-17 - Repairs are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

tzontli ima.

Headword: 
tzontli ima.
Principal English Translation: 

a certain type of bug, such as a spider (see Molina); a spider called the daddy longlegs (DFC); literally, "it has 400 hands/arms" (SW)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 99r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/99r/images/5edf99b6-4... Accessed 4 November 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
tzuntlima, tzontlima, tzuntli ima
Alonso de Molina: 

tzuntlima. cierta sauandija como araña.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 154r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tzontli ima = el opilión (la araña con piernas largas)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 99r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/99r/images/5edf99b6-4... Accessed 4 November 2025.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
tzontli.
maitl.
i-.