coneepatl
Classical Nahuatl
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editEtymology
editconētl (“child”) + epatl (“skunk”)
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editconēepatl
- A kind of skunk.
- [1651, Francisco Hernández, Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu plantarum animalium mineralium Mexicanorum historia (in Latin), Romae: Ex typographeio Vitalis Mascardi, page 332:
- Sunt & alia duo huius Vulpeculæ genera, eadem penè forma, & natura. quorum alterum Yzquiepatl vocatum, faſcijs multis candentibus diſtinguitur; alterum verò, Conepatl, ſeu Vulpecula puerilis, vnica tantum vtrinq; ducta, perq; caudam ipſam eodem modo delata.
- There are also two other types of these skunks, with nearly the same form and nature; of which the first, called yzquiepatl, is distinguished by its many white stripes; the second, conepatl, or childish skunk, having only one on each side, continued in this way through to its very tail.]