tepacho.

Headword: 
tepacho.
Principal English Translation: 

a ruler (e.g. regidor, governor, or president); also seen as tepachoani (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tepacho. regidor, gouernador o presidente.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 101v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tepacho in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance