to take (an impersonal verb); combines tla- (something), a-cui- (to take), and -hua (impersonal) Faustino Chimalpopoca Galicia, Boletín de la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística, Tomo 4–5, Primera época, (1854–56), 324.
the place of writing and painting; also the name of a place of worship, a temple made entirely of wood, where Ixtlilton or Tlaltetecuini, was worshipped (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, 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, 1950), 35.
a place, building, or workshop for painting and/or writing (see attestations); in the example cited, the reference is to a painting workshop in the church
(ca. 1582, Mexico City) Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 196–197.