to measure one thing up against another, or, to measure something for someone else (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
tlatamachiuilia
Alonso de Molina:
tlatamachiuilia. nite. (pret. onitetlatamachiuili.) medir alguna cosa a otro, o para otro. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 134v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.