xiuhtototic

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

xiuhtōtōtl "Lovely Cotinga" + -tic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiwtoːtoːtik/

Noun

xiuhtōtōtic

1. Lovely Cotinga-colored.
   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, "Florentine Codex", book 11, chapter 2, paragraph 2

     Xihujtzilli: macitica, motqujtica texotic: xiuhtototic, ticeoac, teuhxiuhtic, xippopoca, teuxippopoca.

     (Costa hummingbird: It is entirely, completely light blue like a cotinga, pale like fine turquoise. It is resplendent like turquoise, like fine turquoise.)

References

• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page part XII, p. 24