Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• ocelocopile

Noun

ocelocopileh

1. One that has a conical jaguar-skin headpiece.
   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, "Florentine Codex", book 1

     Auh yujn yn muchichioaia: ocelocopile

     (And he was thus arrayed: he had a conical ocelot skin cape.)

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 9