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tlacuiloloni.

Headword: 
tlacuiloloni.
Principal English Translation: 

a medium for painting or writing, a reference to a brown substance (camopalli) made for the purpose (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

"tlapalpoiavac, tlaqualnextilonj, tlacujlolonj" [tlapalpoyahuac, tlacualnextiloni, tlacuiloloni (SW)]= "a medium for...giving them luster, for painting, for coloring" (translation by Anderson and Dibble)
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 221v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/221v . Accessed 4 January 2026.

themes: 
Art, Crafts
Colors
Writing, Literacy
See also: 
tlacuilo.
-loni.
camopalli.