latin tlahtolli

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

latin tlahtōlli

1. Latin; the Latin language
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 152v:

     Latin lengua latina. latin tlatolli.

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   • c. 1609, Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 62r.

     amo pilli çan huey momachtiani colegial latin tlahtolli quimatia
     (He was not a nobleman but a great scholar, a collegian, who knew the Latin language.)

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Derived terms

• latin tlahtoliztli
• latin tlahtollotl

References

• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages vol. 1, pp. 172–173