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tlacentetilia.

Headword: 
tlacentetilia.
Principal English Translation: 

gather together

Alonso de Molina: 

tlacentetilia. juntar diuersas cosas envno. prete. onitlacentetili
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 17v.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

centetia = estar unidos, entenderse, forma una unidad
centetilia (mo-) = reunirse, formar un todo, hacer un conjunto, ponerse en bola, en pelotón, etc.
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), 84.