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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Many L.A. artists consider Tlaloc Studios a home base.
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 meet Correa at Tlaloc Studios, an artist-run studio in South Los Angeles, a space that has been meaningful to him since he moved to L.A. a couple of years ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 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
The young moon will be up in a trice, and I must invoke Tlaloc, the god of the waters, to bestow some gold on the Caciques of Tehuantepec.”
From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne
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