calpulli

American  

[kal-pool-ee] / kælˈpʊl i /

noun

• calpullis
  plural

1. History/Historical. a unit of social organization in pre-Columbian Aztec society consisting of an extended family or other group with shared interests who lived close together and shared some land rights or tribute responsibilities.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• calpullis
  plural

Example Sentences

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calpulli calpullis

This chief has charge of the lands of the calpulli.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan

They also had the name of calpulli, and until now this property has been respected.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan

But the other males could apply to the chief of the calpulli for a 'tlalmilli' of their own; the females went with their husbands.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan

The same occurred if the family enjoying its possession removed from the calpulli.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan

That the smaller subdivisions were those who held the soil, and not the four original groups, must be inferred from the fact that the ground was attached to the calpulli.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan

Among the lands which were given to the chefs of the second class there were also calpullis.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan

The calpullis, families or quarters, are very common in each province.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan

There were twenty clans, called in the Nahuatl language "calpullis."

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske