patlachuia

Classical Nahuatl

Verb

patlachuia

1. (transitive) To have lesbian sex with.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 137v:

     Hazerlo la muger a otra. nite,patlachuia.
     (For the woman to do it to another.)

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   • 1565, Alonso de Molina, Confessionario breve en lengua mexicana y castellana, f. 12v:

     Cuix aca occe ciuatl, amoneuan ammopatlachuique?
     Has cometido el pecado contra natura, con otra muger como tu?
     (Have you committed the sin against nature, with another woman like yourself?)

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   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 10

     tepatlachuia, mocioaicniuhtia, aic monamictiznequi, cenca quincocolia aiel quimittaz in oquichti

     (She has carnal relations with other women; she takes female companions. She never desires a husband; she hates, detests men exceedingly)

Derived terms

• tepatlachuiani
• tepatlachui

Related terms

• patlachpol

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 XI, p. 56