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tepɑːnketsɑ

to draw boundaries or put boundary markers at the limits of a territory (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tepan quizaliztli.

a farcical representation of a person (see Molina)

a person who represents others in a farce (see Molina)

teːpɑnkiːski

a person who represents others in a farce (see Molina)

tepɑːntemolistɬi

to establish boundaries, mark borders of a territory (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 199.

people attached to a tlahtoani; possibly "palace people" (if tecpantlaca is meant) or "palace inhabitant" (see Siméon, p. 442); or, possibly supervisor, given that tepan is given in Molina as "sobre alguno, o sobre algunos" (Coyoacan, mid-sixteenth century)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 26, see note 6 on page 154.

revenge, or repayment of an insult (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tepantlatoc

an attorney

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 32.

Orthographic Variants: 
tepan tlahtoani, tepantlatoani, tepantlahtohuani

an intercessor, or a lawyer (see Molina)

operating on behalf of a plaintiff; or, through the pleading and supplications of someone (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tepan tlatoliztli

the act of interceding or pleading; advocacy, the legal profession (see Molina)