Classical Nahuatl

Noun

latin tlahtōlli

1. Latin; the Latin language.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 152v.

     Latin lengua latina. latin tlatolli.

   • c. 1609: Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 62r.

     amo pilli çan huey momachtiani colegial latin tlahtolli quimatia

     (He was not a nobleman but a great scholar, a collegian, who knew the Latin language.)

Derived terms

• latin tlahtoliztli
• latin tlahtollotl

References

• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Codex Chimalpahin, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pages vol. 1, pp. 172–173