Tlaloc
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Tlaloc
< Mexican Spanish Tláloc < Nahuatl Tlāloc, equivalent to tlāl ( li ) earth, land + oc lies, is stretched out
Example Sentences
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When the trophy was unveiled at an event at Tlaloc Studios this week, the crowd was quite literally drawn toward the piece — with more than one person asking Juarez if they could touch it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
One side was dedicated to the city’s patron Tlaloc, the god of rain.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
I invested all my savings and the money I received from the government into Tlaloc Studios.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
One invokes Tlaloc, the Aztec rain god; another creates a new myth in which the roadrunner is a prophet.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2019
This is nothing else than the temple of the god Huitzilopochtli and of his equal, Tlaloc.
From Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 by Edward Singleton Holden
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