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tlacpacpa.

Headword: 
tlacpacpa.
Principal English Translation: 

from above, from high up, or from toward upward (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlacpacpa. de arriba, delo alto, o de hazia arriba.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 119v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yc tlacpacConpa = the upper part (Toluca valley, 1822)
Miriam Melton-Villanueva, The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016), 175–177.