temazcalli
Central Nahuatl edit
Noun edit
temazcalli
- lodge, sweat bath.
Classical Nahuatl edit
Etymology edit
From tēma (“to pour, bathe by pouring”) + calli (“house, structure”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
temāzcalli (plural temāzcaltin)
- A sweat lodge, sweat bath.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 98r. col. 1:
- temazcalli. casilla como estufa, adonde se bañan y sudan.
- (temazcalli. small house like an oven, where they bathe and sweat.)
Descendants edit
- Spanish: temazcal
References edit
- “temazcalli” in the Nahuatl Dictionary, University of Oregon, 2011.