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citlalcoatl.

Headword: 
citlalcoatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a snake; also called citlalin imiuh; very rare; terrifying and very poisonous, deadly; the stars on this snake, as seen in the second painting of it on folio 85v, has Europea-type pointed stars painted on it (SW)

Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 85r, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/85r?spTexts=&nhTexts= Accessed 31 October 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
citlalcooatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

Citlalcoatl = a personal name; e.g. the sixth child of Ahuitzotl, a ruler of Tenochtitlan
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. 1, 154–155.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Death and Dying
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine
Names (personal or theonyms)
Politics, Power, Governance
See also: 
citlalin.
coatl.