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tlapiloltinemi.

Headword: 
tlapiloltinemi.
Principal English Translation: 

to go about hanging (e.g. with the penis hanging, uncovered) (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 17.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ҫan tlapilotinemj, chilchotl quinanamaca = He walked about [with virile member] hanging [uncovered], and sold green chilis (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 17.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Zan tlapilotinemi, chilehotl quinamaca = Andando nomás desnudo, colgándole la cosa, se puso a vender chile
Miguel León-Portilla, Erótica nahuatl (México: El Colegio Nacional y Artes de México y el Mundo, 2018), 14–15.

themes: 
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction