Etymology

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Today it means: A stylized, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican stone sculpture depicting a reclining male figure with the head raised and turned to one side, holding a small tray over the stomach. Full definition →

Yucatec Maya chak moʼol
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  1. Yucatec Maya · borrowed fromchak moʼol“jaguar”
  2. English todaychacmool

Borrowed from Yucatec Maya chak moʼol (“jaguar”, literally “red paw”). The name was first given by Augustus Le Plongeon to a statue of this type discovered at Chichén Itzá in 1875.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.