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tetlatzontequililiztli.

Headword: 
tetlatzontequililiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a legal sentence, condemnation, or trial (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
teːtɬɑtsontekililistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tetlatzontequililiztli. sentencia, condenacion, o juizio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 110r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Injc Vme Parrapho: ipan mjtoa, in quenjn qujnpepenaia Iuezes. In tlatoanj oc cenca qujmocujtlaujaia in tetlatzontequjliliztli, qujcaquja in jxqujch in jneteilhujl: ioan in jchoqujz, in jnentlamachiliz in jnetolinjliz in cujtlapilli, atlapalli in jcnotlacatl, in motolinja in maçeoalli = Second Paragraph, in which it is described how they choose judges. The ruler watched especially over the trials; he heard all the accusations and the complaints, the afflictions, and the misery of the common folk, the orphans, the poor, and the vassals (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), 54.