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tepeticpac.

Headword: 
tepeticpac.
Principal English Translation: 

the mountain top, the mountain peak(s), the summit (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tepeːtikpɑk
Alonso de Molina: 

tepeticpac. la cumbre o lo alto de la sierra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

içaçocampa acxoiatlalitiuh in tepeticpac, in vmpa onmjcoia ioalnepantla = or there where they went to place the fir branches on mountain tops–there where sacrifices were made at midnight (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, 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, 1951), 72.

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