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centecpantli.

Headword: 
centecpantli.
Principal English Translation: 

one group of twenty; often refers to things that could be organized in rows or lines; Molina gives examples of: tamemes (human carriers), houses, rocks, or horses (see Molina); can refer to twenty tribute payers; plural of centecpantli = centecpantin

IPAspelling: 
sentekpɑntɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

centecpantli. veynte tamemes, casas, piedras, bestias. &c. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 17v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents centecpantli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yz centecpantin cuetlaxcovapan yaz yc tlaxtlavilozque memedio totomin yz [sobre el renglón: ce]cemilhuitl = una veintena irá a Cuetlaxcohuapan y les será pagado medio tomín cada día (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 292–293.

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centecpantin.