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altepetenanxitictli.

Headword: 
altepetenanxitictli.
Principal English Translation: 

a door in the wall around a city or town (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
altepetenan xitictli
Alonso de Molina: 

altepetenan xitictli. portillo de muro, o de cerca de ciudad.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
See also: 
tenamitl.
altepetl.