patlachuia

patlachuia

Classical Nahuatl

Verb

patlachuia

1. (transitive) To have lesbian sex with.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 137v.

     Hazerlo la muger a otra. nite,patlachuia.

     (For the woman to do it to another.)

   • 1565: Alonso de Molina, Confessionario breve en lengua mexicana y castellana, f. 12v.

     Cuix aca occe ciuatl, amoneuan ammopatlachuique?

     Has cometido el pecado contra natura, con otra muger como tu?

     (Have you committed the sin against nature, with another woman like yourself?)

   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 10

     tepatlachuia, mocioaicniuhtia, aic monamictiznequi, cenca quincocolia aiel quimittaz in oquichti

     (She has carnal relations with other women; she takes female companions. She never desires a husband; she hates, detests men exceedingly)

Derived terms

• tepatlachuiani
• tepatlachui

Related terms

• patlachpol

References

• 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. 56