T | Nahuatl Dictionary

to make progress; to go along one's way; or, one who goes along planting seeds or frequents a brothel or one's lover (see Molina); can also mean to chase or attack something (see Bierhorst)

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tlatocaaltepetl.

a town with a tlahtoani, apparently used in Tlaxcala to mean cabecera (head town in the Spanish municipal hierarchy) of even a higher status

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tlatocacalli.

tɬɑhtohkɑːkɑlli

ruler's house(s)

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tlatocachichihua.

tɬɑhtohkɑːtʃihtʃiːwɑ

Orthographic Variants:

tlatocachichiua

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tlatocacihuapilli.

Orthographic Variants:

tlahtoca ciuapilli, tlatoca cihuapilli, tlahtocacihuapilli

a princess or a great lady; a rulerly lady; also a high title for the Virgin Mary

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tlatocacihuatl.

Orthographic Variants:

tlatocacioatl

a type of noblewoman

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), 46.

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tlatocaconetl.

the child of a ruler

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), chapter 34, 183.

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tlatocaichpochtli.

Orthographic Variants:

tlatocaichpuchtli

the ruling Virgin (a neologism)

Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 251.

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