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Tlacaxipehualiztli

Tlacaxipehualiztli proper noun: an Aztec religious festival.

Proper noun

Tlacaxipehualiztli

  1. An Aztec religious festival.
    • THere was an other kinde of ſacrifice which they made in divers feaſts, which they called Racaxipe Velitzli^([sic]), which is as much as the fleaing of men.[1604, José de Acosta, translated by E. G., The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies, London, translation of Historia natural y moral delas Indias, page 386
  2. A month of the Aztec calendar.
    • Tlacaxipeualiztli, the second Mexican month according to some authorities and the first according to others, began in 1521 on March 8th of our present calendar.1916, Herbert J. Spinden, “The question of the zodiac in America”, in American Anthropologist, volume 18, number 1, page 66

Forms of Tlacaxipehualiztli

alternative formTlacaxipeoaliztli
alternative formTlacaxipeualiztli

Origin of Tlacaxipehualiztli

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Tlācaxīpēhualiztli, from tlācatl (“person”) + xīpēhua (“to skin”) + -liztli (action suffix).

Questions about Tlacaxipehualiztli

What does Tlacaxipehualiztli mean?
Tlacaxipehualiztli means an Aztec religious festival.
What part of speech is Tlacaxipehualiztli?
Tlacaxipehualiztli is a proper noun.

Words near Tlacaxipehualiztli in the dictionary

  1. tl;dw
  2. TL;NR
  3. TLA
  4. Tla-o-qui-aht
  5. TLAC
  6. Tlacaxipehualiztli
  7. tlachtli
  8. tlachtlis
  9. tlaco
  10. Tlacoachistlahuaca
  11. Tlacopan

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