tlacopintli.

Headword: 
tlacopintli.
Principal English Translation: 

a container for seed, a unit of dry measure of the pre-contact era (i.e. before European colonization), larger than the Spanish fanega, and the amount of produce it will provide

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkopiːntɬi
Attestations from sources in English: 

"Each tlacopintli equals 93 bushels."
Stuart Struever, Prehistoric Agriculture (Washington, D.C.: American Museum of Natural History; Natural History Press, 1971), 522

"...somewhere between 125 and 140 lb."
Warwick Bray, Everyday Life of the Aztecs (1991), 112.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Una posibilidad: segun Ixtlilxochitl, "...cada tlacopintli tenía tres almudes más de una fanega." Pero Boban dice que el tlacompixtli es el "equivalente indígena de la fanega o sea 54 litros aproximadamente." Y copichtli = acucharada o acanalada.
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Unidades nahuas de medida," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 195–223, ver la página 205.

themes: 
Measurements, Quantities