eloçacatl

eloçacatl

Classical Nahuatl

Eloçacatl (left) in the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (1552).

Etymology

elotl (“ear of maize”) +‎ çacatl (“grass”)

Noun

eloçacatl

1. A kind of plant.
   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, chapter 7, paragraph 7

     ELOÇACATL, çeceltic, cecelpatic, celpatic, iamanquj.

     (ELOÇACATL: It is fresh green, each one fresh green, very fresh green; it is soft.)

References

• 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 194