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nepacatica.

Headword: 
nepacatica.
Principal English Translation: 

in the future (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nēpacatica
IPAspelling: 
neːpɑkɑtikɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

NĒPACATICA in the future / en futuro (Z) [(2)Zp.62,177). Since Z does not mark the vowel of the third syllable long or have a glottal stop, the first element may not be NĒPACAH but rather NĒPA and -CA, and that in turn suffixed by the sequence -Tl-CA. See NĒPACAH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 169.