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atletilia.

Headword: 
atletilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to reduce something to nothing; to reduce oneself to nothing; to diminish, belittle, or humiliate others (see Molina); to ruin or destroy someone or something (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ɑhtɬehtiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

atletilia. nin. (pret. oninatletili.) aniquilarse o deshazerse.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

atletilia. nite. (pret. oniteatletili.) deshazer o apocar a otros.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

atletilia. nitla. (pret. onitlaatletili.) aniquilar alguna cosa, o tornarla anada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 8v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

AHTLEHTILIĀ vt to ruin, to destroy someone, something / deshacer o apocar a otros (M), aniquilar alguna cosa o tornarla a nada (R)[(1)Rp.63]. R does not indicate the glottal stop of the second syllable. applic. AHTLEHTIY(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 7.

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