T

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adult male who looks like an adolescent.
young, unmarried man.
teːlpokɑtɬ

youth; a young man (see Karttunen and Molina)

teːlpoːkɑjoːtɬ

youth; youthfulness (see Molina)

a person's name (attested as male)

girlhood (see Molina)

teːlpoːtʃkɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
tēlpōchcalli

house of youths, an institution of education for young men (see Karttunen)

to die as a male youth; this term is seen in Chimalpahin in his discussion of sixteenth-century nobles, descendants of Tizoc, many of whom died young and unmarried (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 114–115.

teːlpoːtʃneːsi
Orthographic Variants: 
telpochtlaueliloc

a ruffian; or, a carnal youth (see Molina); or, a lewd youth (see Sahagún)

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), 32.

Orthographic Variants: 
telpochtlauelilocati

to go about as a ruffian, to live carnally (see Molina)

"leaders of the youths"; refers to a position of leadership within the telpochalli

Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 227.