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-ticpac.

Headword: 
-ticpac.
Principal English Translation: 

above; over; on top of; at the top of; above the head of. This is a suffix that combines the ligature -ti- with -icpac. It is often found on place names.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Oztoticpac = On Top of the Caves. "The THREAD logogram ICPA(TTL) does service with a secondary logographic value, (T)ICPAC, as we see in the place glyph for Oztoticpac ('On Top of the Caves')" in the Codex Mendoza, folio 10 verso.
Gordon Whittaker, Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs, 2021, 108.

See also: 
icpatl.