Tlacaxipehualiztli

English

Alternative forms

• Tlacaxipeoaliztli, Tlacaxipeualiztli

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Tlācaxīpēhualiztli, from tlācatl (“person”) +‎ xīpēhua (“to skin”) +‎ -liztli (action suffix).

Proper noun

Tlacaxipehualiztli

1. An Aztec religious festival.
   • [1604, José de Acosta, translated by E. G., The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies, London, translation of Historia natural y moral delas Indias, page 386:

     THere was an other kinde of ſacrifice which they made in divers feaſts, which they called Racaxipe Velitzli^[sic], which is as much as the fleaing of men.]

2. A month of the Aztec calendar.
   • 1916, Herbert J. Spinden, “The question of the zodiac in America”, in American Anthropologist, volume 18, number 1, page 66:

     Tlacaxipeualiztli, the second Mexican month according to some authorities and the first according to others, began in 1521 on March 8th of our present calendar.