tlacamazatl

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Etymology

tlācatl "person" + mazātl "deer; wild beast; horse"

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɬaːkamasaːtɬ/

Noun

tlācamazātl

  1. A rabid person.
  2. A centaur (in descriptions of the sign of Sagittarius).
    • 17C: Chimalpahin, British and Foreign Bible Society MS 374, vol. 3, fol. 64r.
      de sagitario. ypan quicuepa centauro tlacamaçatl—
    • 17C: Fonds Mexicain 381
      De nobiebre. Sangitarius tlacamaçatl

References
  • Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin: society and politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and other Nahua altepetl in central Mexico: the Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts collected and recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages vol. 2, pp. 128–129
  • Gates, William (ed.) (1935) A Planetary Calendar en Lengua Náhuatl del año 1639, Baltimore: The Maya Society
  • Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 252
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