cocoxqui

cocoxqui

Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• (Amecameca): cocoxquetl

Noun

cocoxqui

1. ill, sick.

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Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• cucuxqui

Etymology

cocoya (“to be sick”) +‎ -qui

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kokoʃki/

Noun

cocoxqui (absolutive plural cocoxqueh, possessive singular īcocoxcāuh, possessive plural īcocoxcāhuān)

1. Someone or something sick, ill.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 101r:

     Enfermo generalmente. cocoxqui.

2. A gay man who is the passive partner in sex; a bottom.

   Synonyms: cuiloni, chimouhqui

   • Ibid., f. 205r:

     Puto que padece [c]uiloni.chimouhqui.cucuxqui.

3. vulva

   Synonyms: tepilli, nenetl

   • 16th c. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 10:

     Tepilli: nenetl, cocoxqui, icocoxcauh

Related terms

• cocox

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 213
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 40
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 215
• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Florentine Codex, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, pages part XI, p. 124