tonalchichicaquilitl

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

tonalli +‎ chichicaquilitl

Noun

tonalchichicaquilitl

1. A kind of plant, probably Oenothera laciniata.
   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 7, paragraph 4

     TONALCHICHICAQUJLITL, in tlalhoacpan, in çaçacatla in quauhtla mochioa, cuetlanextic nexeoac [...]

     (TONALCHICHICAQUILITL: It grows in dry lands, in the grasslands, in the forest. It is a faded ashen color, ashen; [etc.])

References

• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble, transl., Florentine Codex, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, page part 11, p. 137