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cuauhcalpixqui.

Headword: 
cuauhcalpixqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a prison steward, or the guardian of a large wooden cage (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcalpixqui
Alonso de Molina: 

quauhcalpixqui. carcelero, o guardador de jaula grande de palo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 86r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

quauhcalpixque = plural form

quihtoque yn quauhcalpixque = The prison stewards spoke
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 52–53.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment
Occupations, Responsibilities