cocoxqui

Alternative forms

• cucuxqui

Etymology

cocoya "to be sick" + -qui

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kokoʃki/

Noun

cocoxqui (absolutive plural cocoxqueh, possessive singular īcocoxcāuh, possessive plural īcocoxcāhuān)

1. (sexuality) Someone or something sick; ill.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 101r.

     Enfermo generalmente. cocoxqui.

2. A passive male homosexual.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 205r.

     Puto que padece [c]uiloni.chimouhqui.cucuxqui.

3. Vulva.
   • 16C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 10

     Tepilli: nenetl, cocoxqui, icocoxcauh

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 213
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 40
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 215
• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1981) Florentine Codex, ed. and trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, 2nd ed., rev. edition, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, pages part XI, p. 124