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tlazomahuizteopixcatatli.

Headword:

tlazomahuizteopixcatatli.

Principal English Translation:

a revered, venerable father-priest (see Siméon)

Orthographic Variants:

tlazomahuizteopixcatahtli

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

tlaçomahuizteopixcatatli = querido venerable padre sacerdote, de tlaçotli, querido, mahuiço, venerable, teopixqui, sacerdote, y tatli, padre; y con la forma reverencial se dice: notlaçomahuizteopixcatatzin, mi muy querido venerable padre sacerdote; "hay que advertir que los sustantivos compuestos de más de dos o tres palabras son de formación relativamente reciente y que la mayor parte de ellos corresponde a épocas posteriores a la conquista"
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxviii.

themes:

Religion (Christian)

Religion (Indigenous Christianty)

Religion (Indigenous)