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priest (literally, our father, in the reverential)
Orthographic Variants: 
totauan

our parents (see Molina and attestations); often equated with mother/father, regularly paired and almost as one being

1. appellative for an elderly man. 2. s.o.’s grandfather.

a personal name, a follower or devotee of the divine force, [Xipe] Totec
J. Richard Andrews, Introduction to Classical Náhuatl (1975), 607.

possibly also the divine force himself (as shown in an image in the Florentine Codex)
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 9: The Merchants", fol. 49v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/9/folio/49v/images/0 Accessed 1 September 2025.

the temple devoted to Xipe Totec

(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), 17.

Orthographic Variants: 
totechiuhcauan

those who govern the republic or indigenous community (see Molina)

toteːkwɑːkɑːn

a metropolitan or matrix city (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
totecuio ichan

the home of our lord; also, an ermitage or a chapel (see attestations)

toteːkwiyoː
Orthographic Variants: 
totēcuiyō

Our Lord God (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
totecuiocihoatl

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), 45.

abbreviation for totēcuiyo, our lord (the final o is usually elevated in the abbreviation)

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), 240.

fourth ruler of the Toltecs in Tollan (Tula), a man

Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 8.