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tepatia.

Headword: 
tepatia.
Principal English Translation: 

to cure people (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēpahtiā
IPAspelling: 
teːpɑhtiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒPAHTIĀ to cure people / curar (gente) (X) [(6)Xp.85]. This also appears in P with the glottal stop marked but not the long vowel. See PAHTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 228.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

themes: 
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine