Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

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

tetlatzacuiltiloni.

Headword: 
tetlatzacuiltiloni.
Principal English Translation: 

means of inflicting punishment (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tētlatzacuiltīlōni
IPAspelling: 
teːtɬɑtsɑkwiltiːloːni
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒTLATZACUILTĪLŌNI means of inflicting punishment / instrumento para castigar (C) [(1)Cf.45v]. The vowel of the fifth syllable should be long by general rule but is not so marked in C. M has tetlatzacuiltiani 'someone who inflicts punishment.' See TZACUILTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 236.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment