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tecpantlacatl.

Headword: 
tecpantlacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a courtier, member of a palace household or staff (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēcpantlācatl
IPAspelling: 
teːkpɑntɬɑːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒCPANTLĀCA-TL pl: -TLĀCAH courtier, member of a palace household or staff / cortesano (M), gente de palacio, o consagrada al servicio inmediato de príncipe (R) [(1)Rp.130]. R gives this in plural form, and the only diacritic that appears is the final glottal stop. See TĒCPAN, TLĀCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 217.

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