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centlamapictli.

Headword: 
centlamapictli.
Principal English Translation: 

a fist or handful of chickpeas or the like (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
sentɬɑmɑːpiktɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

centlamapictli. vn puño o puñado de garuanzos o de cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 18r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Es una medida usada para medir "áridos, contadas por puñados, según se desprende de su etimología."
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Unidades nahuas de medida," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 195–223, ver la página 205.