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tlamictiliztli.

Headword: 
tlamictiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

impotence in a man (see Molina); or, human sacrifice (a religious ceremony)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 72.

or, male sexual impotence (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmiktiːlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlamictiliztli. impotencia del varon, que no puede tener parte con muger.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 126v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrificial Rites
Religion (Indigenous)
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction