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maxochitl.

Headword: 
maxochitl.
Principal English Translation: 

boughs or bouquets of flowers held in the hands

Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 482–483.

Orthographic Variants: 
macxochitl
Attestations from sources in English: 

Macxochitl seems to be a variant spelling; see the Florentine Codex, Book 11, folio 198v., which has several examples.
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 198v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/198v/images/0 . Accessed 30 November 2025.

The Matrícula de Huexotzinco of 1560 includes Nahuatl hieroglyphs for several people who held the name Maxochitl. Searching the word maxochitl will bring up several examples which seem to show hand-held flower bouquets.
Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, University of Oregon, ©2020-present). https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

opeuhqui y maçehualtin ynic ye mocueçohua inic opeuh yca xochitopili ynic mochi maxochitl = empezaron a enojarse los macehuales; empezaron por las varas de flores [xochitopilli] y todos los ramilletes de flores para las manos [maxochitl] (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 482–483.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora
See also: 
maitl.
xochitl.