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tlapilotica.

Headword: 
tlapilotica.
Principal English Translation: 

hanging (example speaks of a "virile member" hanging out in the open, without a loincloth)

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 17.

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh in iehoatl injchpoch in Vemac oallachix in tianquizco, qujoalittac in tovenio tlapilotica. auh in oqujttac niman calac in calitic, njman ie ic mococooa, teponacivi, popoҫaoa, iuhqujn qujmotolinj in jtotouh in tovenio = And this daughter of Uemac looked out into the market place and saw the stranger with [virile member] hanging [uncovered]. And when she had seen him, she went into the house. Thereupon she sickened; she became tense and inflamed [because of] her desire of the stranger's member (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 17.