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netemachilo.

Headword: 
netemachilo.
Principal English Translation: 

it is hoped, trusted
Barry D. Sell, Louise M. Burkhart, Elizabeth R. Wright, Nahuatl Theater: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Transition (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008), 385.

Attestations from sources in English: 

iuqui uey aueuetl, uey pochotl ic tlatocati: yehica iuicpa uel netemachilotoc = he was like a great cypress, a great ceiba, because the people put their trust in him. Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 144–145.