teopixcayotl
Classical Nahuatl edit
Etymology edit
From teōpixqui (“priest”) + -yōtl (“forming abstract nouns, -ness, -hood”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
teōpixcāyōtl (inanimate)
- (Catholicism) priesthood
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 219v:
- Sacerdocio.teopixcayotl.
- Priesthood. teopixcayotl.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 101r. col. 2:
- Teopixcayotl. sacerdocio, orden ſacra, o digni- / dad eccleſiaſtica.
- Teopixcayotl. priesthood, a religious order or ecclesiastical dignity.