this "tepiltzin," who functioned as a toatoani, ruled Quauhtinchan when it was conquered by the Tlatelolca in 10 Rabbit, led by Quauhtlatoa; the daughter of the ruler of Quauhtinchan, Tepexochillama, was taken prisoner during this conquest and became the wife of Quauhtlatoa; their son, Quauhtomicicuil, became a tlatoani of Tlatelolco; the wife of Tecuhtlecozauhqui was Tezcatomiyauh, and she was from Quauhquechollan; he was said to have governed 224 years (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 218.
a lord, an important nobleman heading a lordly house or teccalli The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 154.
a lord, a knight, or a gentleman (see Molina)
a lord, a member of the high nobility (see Karttunen)
Seen in the twentieth century to mean patrón (see attestations in Spanish).
a woman's name, attested in sixteenth-century Morelos Julia Madajczak, Katarzyna Anna Granicka, and Szymon Gruda, Fragments of the Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Census from the Jagiellonian Library (2021), 209.