⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-17 - Repairs are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

T

Letter T: Displaying 10241 - 10260 of 13569
Orthographic Variants: 
tlatlilhuauanani
Orthographic Variants: 
tlatlilhuauanqui
Orthographic Variants: 
tlatlilhuauantli
place covered with soot.

to make a smudge, mess up a painting

Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 124–125.

tɬɑhtoɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtoa, tlatoua, tlahtohua, tlatohua

to speak; to issue proclamations and commands (and, therefore, to govern); to supervise or direct something; also, for birds to chatter, chirp, sing

tɬɑhtoɑːni
Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtoani, tlatuani, tlahtuani, tlahtohuani, tlatohuani

ruler ("one who speaks"), dignitary, judge, speaker, great lord, king; also used in reference to various high Spanish officials.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 238.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtoca icpallalia

to set up a platform (for a ruler?) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtoca icpalli

a royal seat, an indigenous ruler's throne, etc. (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtoca icpalteca

to put up a platform or throne for the indigenous ruler (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtoca icuilolli

a person who is counted in the census, who appears in the ruler's tribute records (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtoca necentlaliliztli

a royal court or gathering of indigenous lords and rulers (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtoca nematequiloni, tlahtocanematequiloni, tlatocanematequiloni

dishes for the indigenous nobility to wash their hands (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtoca pepechtli

a bed for royalty or rulers (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtoca tetlaqualtiani

domestic servant to lords (see Molina)