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tlalticpacayoelehuia.

Headword: 
tlalticpacayoelehuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to covet or desire earthly and mundane things (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalticpacayoeleuia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːltikpɑkɑːjoːeleːwiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlalticpacayoeleuia. ni. (pret. onitlalticpacayoeleui.) codiciar, o desear estas cosas terrenales, temporales y mundanas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 124v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Might be interpreted to include lust, according to Pete Sigal. He suggests that earthly associations bring fertility into the meaning.
See: Pete Sigal, The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and. Ritual in Early Nahua Culture (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011.

themes: 
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction