noun · feminine
hoitzitzillin
hoitzitzillin f (indeclinable)
Meaning
- New LatinfeminineindeclinableHummingbird.
SPecies quædam eſt Hoitzitzillin pulcherrima
1651, Francisco Hernández, “De Hoitzitzillin Tepuzcullulæ”, in Historiae animalium et mineralium Novae Hispaniae, Romae: Ex Typographeio Vitalis Mascardi, tract. II, cap. CLXIV, page 47:
Origins
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl huitzitzilin.