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tlalticpactlaca.

Headword: 
tlalticpactlaca.
Principal English Translation: 

the people of this world, the people on Earth (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlalticpactlaca. hombres deste mundo.
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 Spanish: 

in ce[n]ca yehuecauh yyequezquipoual xihuitl . . . quezqui pohualtzo[n]xihuitl y ye onoque tlalticpactlaca = hace ya mucho tiempo, hace ya cuantas veintenas de años . . . cuantas veintenas de cuatrocientos existen las gentes de la tierra (ca. 1582, Mexico City)
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), 170–171.