Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• tzapotecatl

Noun

Tzapotēcatl (plural Tzapotēcah)

1. Zapotec.
   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, "Florentine Codex", book 1

     Anaoatl iteouh: tzapoteca in vel inteuh catca,

     (He was the god of the seashore people, the proper god of the Zapotecs.)

Related terms

• Tzapotlan

References

• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Florentine Codex: Book 1 - The Gods, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, page 39