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cempohualxochitl
cempohualxochitl
Classical Nahuatl
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Alternative forms
- cempoalsuchitl (obsolete)
- cempoalxochitl
Noun
cempōhualxōchitl
- Mexican marigold, Tagetes erecta.
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 7, paragraph 8
- Cempoalsuchitl, tzitziqujltic in jxiuhio, matzatzaianquj coztic.
- (Cempoalxochitl. Its foliage is jagged; the leaf is serrated. It is yellow.)
- 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 7, paragraph 8
See also
- macuilxochitl
Descendants
- Spanish: cempasúchil
References
- Brewer, Forrest; Jean G. Brewer (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Telecingo, Morelos: castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano, México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 19, 45, 222
- Sahagún, Bernardino de (1963) Florentine Codex, Book 11 - Earthly Things, tr. by Charles E. Dibble & Arthur J. O. Anderson, Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, page 200