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tlacacuepa.

Headword: 
tlacacuepa.
Principal English Translation: 

to go over to the other side in war; in a Florentine Codex passage, to take on the appearance of the other side

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 235.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑkwepɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacacuepa. nino. (pret. oninotlacacuep.) hazerse dela parte delos contrarios enla guerra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 115r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

Class 2: ōninotlācacuep. tlācatl, cuepa. 235

themes: 
War, Conflict