teuctlatoani.

Headword: 
teuctlatoani.
Principal English Translation: 

leader of a calpolli

James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 17.

Attestations from sources in English: 

o-quimo ma ten namiqui lique ynteuc tla to-aní Colhuaca-teuctlí, cuanex = o:quimomatenna:miquiliqueh in te:uctlahtoa:ni Colhuacate:uctli Cuanex.quimitlani = they had been confronted by the lord ruler Culhuacateuctli Cuanex
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 58.

It is not clear whether this position was hereditary.