Tlamatini

Tlamatini

"Tlamatini" (plural "tlamatinime") is a Nahuatl language word meaning "someone who knows something", generally translated as "wise man". The word is analyzable as derived from the transitive verb "mati" "to know" with the prefix "tla-" indicating an unspecified inanimate object translateable by "something" and the derivational suffix "-ni" meaning "a person who are characterized by ...": hence tla-mati-ni "a person who is characterized by knowing something" or more to the point "a knower".Fact|date=January 2008

The famous Nahuatl language translator and interpreter Miguel León-Portilla refers to the "tlamatini" as philosophers and they are the subject of his book "Aztec Thought and Culture".Fact|date=January 2008

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: cite book |author=aut|Boone, Elizabeth Hill |authorlink=Elizabeth Hill Boone|year=1998 |title=Native Traditions in the Postconquest World, A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 2nd through 4th October 1992 |chapter=Pictorial Documents and Visual Thinking in Postconquest Mexico |chapterurl=http://www.doaks.org/Native/trad07.pdf |format=PDF Reprint |editor=Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cubbins (Eds.) |publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection |location=Washington D.C. |pages=pp.149–199 |isbn=0-88402-239-0 |oclc=34354931|accessdate= : cite book |author=aut|León-Portilla, Miguel |authorlink=Miguel León-Portilla |year=1963 |title=Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Náhuatl Mind |series=Civilization of the American Indian series, #67|others=Jack Emory Davis (trans.) |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |oclc=181727


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