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temictia.

Headword: 
temictia.
Principal English Translation: 

to commit murder

IPAspelling: 
teːmiktiɑ
Attestations from sources in English: 

ttemictti armiJo quimicti don balerio ypan Semanstanda = Armijo committed murder; he killed don Valerio during Holy Week
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 100–101.

tēmictia = to kill (someone) (colonial Mexico)
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 9.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment
Death