hoitzitzillin
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl huitzitzilin.
Noun[edit]
hoitzitzillin f (indeclinable)
- (New Latin) Hummingbird.
- 1651, Francisco Hernández, “De Hoitzitzillin Tepuzcullulæ”, in Historiae animalium et mineralium Novae Hispaniae, Romae: Ex Typographeio Vitalis Mascardi, tract. II, cap. CLXIV, page 47:
- SPecies quædam eſt Hoitzitzillin pulcherrima
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)