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caxtolli once.

Headword: 
caxtolli once.
Principal English Translation: 

sixteen

Orthographic Variants: 
caxtulli oce, caxtolli oce, caxtolli oçe, caxtultetl once
Alonso de Molina: 

caxtulli oce. deziseys.
caxtultetl oce. deziseys.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 13r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Literally: 15 + 1.

ic caxtolli oçe metztli Julio = on the sixteenth of July
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 61.

The othographic variant gastulionce is attested in a seventeenth-century musical manuscript from Guatemala.
Fernando Horcasitas y Alfred Lemmon, "El Tratado de Santa Eulalia: un manuscrito musical náhuatl," Tlalocan 12 (1997), 92–93.

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