hoitzitzillin

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl huitzitzilin.

Noun[edit]

hoitzitzillin f (indeclinable)

  1. (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
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