coatapayolli.

Headword: 
coatapayolli.
Principal English Translation: 

a ball of snakes
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 91r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/91r/images/c81133ef-e... Accessed 3 November 2025. See also what may be a coatapayolli next to the cacahuacuahuitl on f. 123r, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/123r/images/892bd916-ab5....

Orthographic Variants: 
coatatapayolli
Attestations from sources in English: 

coatatapayolli = boule formée de serpents qui se réunissent (a ball formed by snakes that come together)
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer (2004); https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/coatatapayolli/45133. Translation from the French to English here by SW.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
coatl.
tapayolli.