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matlactzontli.

Headword: 
matlactzontli.
Principal English Translation: 

four thousand (Molina gives "four hundred," but tzontli is 400, and here the literal meaning is 10 x 400)

Alonso de Molina: 

matlactzontli. quatro cientos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 53r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See a reference to matlactzontli pesos in the Chavero Codex, the glyph for which is found in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs: https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/matlactzontli-pesos-chav1

See also another reference to matlactzontli from the Telleriano-Remensis Codex: https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/matlactzontli-tr39r

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