Aries. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Aries.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword:

Aries.

Principal English Translation:

Aries, a zodiac sign; [a term that came into Spanish from Latin and then into Nahuatl] (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 128–129.

Orthographic Variants:

ariyes, allies

Attestations from sources in English:

Aries. quitoznequi carnero = Aries: this is, the ram. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 128–130.

aries, a sign of the zodiac; actually, originally a loanword from Latin, although possibly similar in siixteenth-century Spanish
see Lori Boornazian Diel, The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late-Sixteenth-Century New Spain (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018), 172.

themes:

Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.

Time, Calendar, Frequency