Editing Moctezuma II (section)

==Name==
[[File:Moctezuma's feather headdress, ca. 1515, Mexico; Weltmuseum, Vienna (3).jpg|thumb|left|[[Montezuma's headdress|Headdress]] traditionally attributed to Moctezuma II in the [[Museum of Ethnology, Vienna]]. The object, however, might have not belonged to Moctezuma and, contrary to popular belief, it was not used as his crown. It might have been a religious headdress to represent the god [[Quetzalcoatl]] during religious events, a battle standard, or a military device worn in the back.<ref>{{cite book|first=Justyna|last=Olko|title=Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World: From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century|publisher=University Press of Colorado|year=2014|pages=128–130, 181|isbn=9781607322412|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_YvgCwAAQBAJ}}</ref>]]
The [[Classical Nahuatl]] pronunciation of his name is {{IPA|nci|motɛːkʷˈs̻oːmaḁ|}}. It is a [[compound word|compound]] of a noun meaning 'lord' and a verb meaning 'to frown in anger', and so is interpreted as 'he frowns like a lord'<ref>{{cite book |last=Andrews |first=J. Richard |orig-year=1975 |year=2003 |title=Introduction to Classical Nahuatl |others=Revised Edition |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |page=599}}</ref> or 'he who is angry in a noble manner'.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brinton |first=Daniel G. |year=1890 |title=Ancient Nahuatl Poetry |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12219}}</ref> His [[Nahuatl writing|name glyph]], shown in the upper left corner of the image from the ''Codex Mendoza'' [[#Contemporary depictions|below]], was composed of a [[diadem]] ({{lang|nah|xiuhuitzolli}}) on straight hair with an attached [[earspool]], a separate nosepiece, and a [[speech scroll]].<ref>British Museum Exhibition Guide for ''Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler'' (2009)</ref>

===Regnal number===
The Aztecs did not use [[regnal number]]s; they were given retroactively by historians to more easily distinguish him from the first Moctezuma, referred to as [[Moctezuma I]].<ref name="williamson" />  The Aztec chronicles called him {{lang|nah|Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin}}, while the first was called {{lang|nah|Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina}} or {{lang|nah|Huehuemotecuhzoma}} ('Old Moctezuma'). {{lang|nah|Xocoyotzin}} ({{IPA|nci|ʃoːkoˈjoːt͡sin̥|IPA}}) means 'honored young one' (from {{lang|nah|xocoyotl}} 'younger son' + suffix {{lang|nah|-tzin}} added to nouns or personal names when speaking about them with deference).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://whp.uoregon.edu/dictionaries/nahuatl/index.lasso| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100310075533/http://whp.uoregon.edu/dictionaries/nahuatl/index.lasso| archive-date = 2010-03-10| title = Nahuatl Dictionary/Diccionario del Náhuatl}}</ref>