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tepatilo.

Headword: 
tepatilo.
Principal English Translation: 

a person is cured

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Inin pahtli ca huel cenca huei qualli, ipampacà yehuatica tepatilozque inihuicpa in miec in nepapan cocoliztli. = Esta medicina es mucho más grande bueno, porque es con ella gente se curará contra ellas las muchas las diversas enfermedad(es) (centro de México, s. XVIII)
Neville Stiles, Jeff Burnham, James Nauman, "Los concejos médicos del Dr. Bartolache sobre las pastillas de fierro: Un documento colonial en el náhuatl del siglo XVIII," Estudios de Cultural Náhuatl 19 (1989), 269–287, ver página 279.

Tepatilo = se cura la persona
Faustino Chimalpopoca, Epitome ó método fácil de aprender el idioma náhuatl ó lengua Mexicana (1869), 25.