Cuauhnochtli (FCbk8f6v)

Cuauhnochtli (FCbk8f6v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhnochtli shows a segmented prickly pear cactus that is bearing yellow fruit (nochtli) topped with red flowers. The pencas (Spanish for the branches of the cactus) are segmented. The cactus has a Y-shape. Below the cactus is the head of an eagle in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Its beak is open.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Don Alonso quauhnoch:
tli

Gloss Normalization: 

Don Alonso Cuauhnochtli

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)
Date of Manuscript: 

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Birds
Feathers
Flowers
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
brown
green (light)
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
segmented
Y-shapes
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

Cuauhnochtli, a ruler of Tlatelolco in the colonial period, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhnochtli
cuauhnoch(tli), eagle-cactus fruit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhnochtli-0
cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
noch(tli), the fruit of the prickly pear cactus, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nochtli

Image Source: 

Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book undefined: Kings and Lords", fol. 6v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/6v/images/0 Accessed 23 July 2025.

Image Source, Rights: 

Images of the digitized Florentine Codex are made available under the following Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International). For print-publication quality photos, please contact the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ([email protected]).

Orthography: 
"q" for c
Historical Contextualizing Image: