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caltzintli.

Headword: 
caltzintli.
Principal English Translation: 

a small house, an oratory

Attestations from sources in English: 

caltzintli = 'little house,' the place where the tlateōchihualli or blessed things are kept) (sixteenth century, central Mexico)
Berenice Alcántara and Pedro A. Muñoz, "'You Here, Don't Do It This Way': Allegory and Domestic Dwellings in Bernardino de Sahagún's Nahuatl Sermons of the House," Ethnohistory 71:2 (April 2024), see p. 150.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Religion (Indigenous Christianty)