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.