Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• cempoalsuchitl (obsolete)
• cempoalxochitl

Noun

cempōhualxōchitl

1. 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.)

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