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Tlacopanecatl.

Headword: 
Tlacopanecatl.
Principal English Translation: 

someone from Tacuba (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacōpanēcatl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkoːpɑneːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACŌPANĒCA-TL someone from Tacuba / natural de Tacuba (K) [(1)Cf.56v]. See TLACŌPAN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 256.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yquac nica[n] ylpiticatca don Ant[oni]o Tlacopa[n] gov[ernad]or tecpa[n] in catca yquac in quiteylhuiaya in tlacopaneca yhua[n]pipiltin. = entonces aquí en el palacio estaba preso don Antonio gobernador de Tlacopan, entonces lo acusaban los tlacopanecas y los principales [pipiltin]. (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 192.