cacamatl.

Headword: 
cacamatl.
Principal English Translation: 

small corncobs, small ears of corn (maize) (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kɑkɑmɑtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

cacamatl. mazorcas pequeñas de mayz, que nacen cabe la mazorca mayor.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 10v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CACAMA-TL pl: -MEH secondary ears of maize that form at the base of the primary ear / mazorcas pequeñas de maíz, que nacen cabe la mazorca mayor (M), jilote (T) [(1)Tp.112].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 19.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tecpatl xihuitl, ypan in motlahtocatlalli yn tlactl cacamatzin tlahtohuani tetzcuco ynin ypiltzin y neçahualpiltzintli yn çan opoliuh = 1516, Eleven Flint. At this time the lord Cacamatzin was installed as ruler of Texcoco. He was son of Neçahualpiltzintli, who had just disappeared. Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 36–37.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking