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calpolle.

Headword: 
calpolle.
Principal English Translation: 

someone pertaining to a calpolli (or calpulli); a priest; a parishioner
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

Orthographic Variants: 
calpulle
Attestations from sources in English: 

A person pertaining to a calpulli, which can have a religious interpretation, such as associated with a temple. Plural: calpolleque

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ynic centlamantli niquitoa nicmelaua yn nican Cuauhtinchan aü in Tecalco yn Tepeyacac yn Tecamachalco yn Quechollac amo calpolle tlalle. = La primera cosa que digo, declaro, es que aquí en Cuauhtinchan, en Tecalco, en Tepeyacac, en Tecamachalco, y en Quechollac, los calpulli no poseen tierras.
Hildeberto Martínez, Tepeaca en el siglo XVI (1984), 21.

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