tecpilcalli.

Headword: 
tecpilcalli.
Principal English Translation: 

court, royal reception hall (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēcpilcalli
IPAspelling: 
teːkpilkɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒCPILCAL-LI court, royal reception hall / sala del palacio donde se reunían los soldados nobles y donde el rey juzgaba los delitos de adulterio de esos guerreros (S) [(1)Bf.9v]. See TĒCPIL-LI, CAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 217.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Tecpilcalli, vncan catca, vncan tecpanoaia in pipilti, tiacahoan oqujchti, in iauc matinj = Tecpilcalli: there were [to be found] and were established the noblemen, the brave warriors, the valiant men, wise in war. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 42.