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patlache.
Headword:
patlache.
Principal English Translation:
an intersex person, a lesbian, or a "hermaphrodite" (for the latter, see Sahagún)
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents patlache in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
In patlache: ca tlahelcioatl, cioatl xipine tepule, choneoa, mioa, ateoa, mocioapotiani, mocioaicniuhtiani = The hermaphrodite is a detestable woman, a woman who has a penis, a [virile] arrow, testes; who takes female companions, female friends. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)