teopixqui
Central Nahuatl
Alternative forms
- (Amecameca): teopixquetl
Etymology
From Classical Nahuatl teopixqui.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /teoːˈpiʃki/
Classical Nahuatl
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /teoːˈpiʃki/
Noun
teopixqui (animate, plural teopixqueh)
- priest
- 1565, Alonso de Molina, Confessionario breue, en lengua Mexicana y Castellana:
- Nicã ompeua yn neyolmelaualoni, yn amo veyac yn çã tepiton, yn oq̓motlalili oquimotecpanili yn padre fray Alonſo de Molina ſ. Frãciſco teopixq̓ ynipã nauatlatolli oq̓mocuepili.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 101r. col. 1:
- Teopixqui. eccleſiaſtico,clerigo,oreligioſo.
(Teopixqui. a churchman, clergyman or religious man.)- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1599, Ioan Baptista, Confesionario en lengua Mexicana y Castellana:
- In oquimotecpanili padre fray Ioã Baptiſta ſanct Franciſco teupixqui, nican ipan tlahtoca altepetl Tetzcuco.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1645: Horacio Carochi, Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaración de todos sus adverbios, ed. by James Lockhart (2001)
- catotequiuh in tèhuāntin titeōpixquè, inīc īpan titlàtōzquè in īteōyōtzin Totēcuiyo Dios. A nuestro cargo de los que somos Sacerdotes està, el mirar, y cuydar de lo que toca à Dios, y al culto diuino;
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Synonyms
- sacerdote (Catholic), tlamacazqui (Aztec)
Derived terms
References
- Andrews, J. Richard. (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 252.
- Karttunen, Frances. (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas Press, p. 227.
- Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, p. 234.
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