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tecuhtlatoa.

Headword: 
tecuhtlatoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to have an audience or to understand the occupation of the president, the judge, the town official, etc. (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutlatoa, teuctlatoa
Alonso de Molina: 

tecutlatoa. ni. (pret. onitecutlato.) tener audiencia, o entender en su officio el presidente, oydor, alcalde. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 93v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tecutlatoa = the supreme priest of the Otomí
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 177.

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