tonalchichicaquilitl

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

tonalli +‎ chichicaquilitl

Noun

tonalchichicaquilitl

  1. A kind of plant, probably Oenothera laciniata.
    • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 7, paragraph 4
      TONALCHICHICAQUJLITL, in tlalhoacpan, in çaçacatla in quauhtla mochioa, cuetlanextic nexeoac [...]
      (TONALCHICHICAQUILITL: It grows in dry lands, in the grasslands, in the forest. It is a faded ashen color, ashen; [etc.])

References
  • Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Florentine Codex, tr. by Arthur J. O. Anderson & Charles E. Dibble, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, pages part 11, p. 137
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