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cemithualtin.

Headword: 
cemithualtin.
Principal English Translation: 

a family

IPAspelling: 
semitwɑltin
Alonso de Molina: 

cemithualtin. vna familia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 16r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Perhaps a better translation would be "people of a single patio," or "a household" -- a compound or cluster of rooms occupied by multiple generations that include blood relatives and relatives through marriage? The sense is of a "family," perhaps from the European point of view more than the Nahua.

Louise Burkhart translates cemithualtin as "those of one patron."
See Louise M. Burkhart, "Mexican Women on the Home Front: Housework and Religion in Aztec Mexico" in Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, eds., Indian Women of Early Mexico (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 29.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent