tlacateccatl.

Headword: 
tlacateccatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a commanding general

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 24.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlacateccatl = a warrior who took captives in battle and exercised local political duties; also seen as tacatetle (also tacateca) in several inquisitorial trials; Mexica emperor Itzcoatl held this title
David Tavárez, The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), 37, 38.

Tla xoconjtta, in quauhtitlan tlacateccatl, pilli, in jtoca tlachinoltzin, ca vei pilli, ca tlaiecultiloia, ca maceoale catca: auh ca iehoatl contemovi, in octli = Witness the Tlacateccatl of Quauhtitlan, a noble-man named Tlachinoltzin. He was a great noble-man; he was served; he was master of the common folk. But pulque debased him (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), 71.

in teuatenpan, in tlachinoltenpa: in vncan ioli, in vncan tlacati in tonatiuh inan, in tonatiuh yta in tlacateccatl, in tlacochcalcatl, in catlitia, in qujtlamaca in tonatiuh, in tlaltecutli = the battlefield where live, where are born the mother, the father of the sun, the Tlacateccatl, the Tlacochcalcatl who provide drink, who give offerings to the sun, to Tlaltecutli (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), 72.