Tetepon. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Tetepon.

Headword:

Tetepon.

Principal English Translation:

a person's name (gender not made clear); this may mean "stout," "thick boned," "chubby," "stump like," or having a "stubby chin"

Orthographic Variants:

Tetepo

Attestations from sources in English:

ytoca jua tetepu = named Juan Tetepon (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 130–131.

Tetepón means "chubby" in Spanish, and it was apparently a loan that came from Nahuatl.

The man's name Tetepon (also Tetepontlil) also occurs in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco of 1560. See, for example:
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tetepon-mh616v
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tetepon-mh758v
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tetepontlil-mh613v

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

Diego Tetepon, difunto
El libro de testamentos de Culhuacán, eds. Miguel León-Portilla, Sarah Cline, y Juan Carlos Torres López, 2023, 178.

Agustín Tetepon (p. 206)
Rodrigo Tetepon (p. 318)
Arvallo, Francisco, y Marcos Tetepon (p. 351)
Padrones de Tlaxcala del siglo XVI y Padrón de nobles de Ocotelulco, ed. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, 1987.