to prepare, to combine others (see Molina; tentative translation by Stephanie Wood)
Alonso de Molina:
teca nitlateteca. (pret.) teca onitlatetecac. aparejar combite a otros. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 92r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.