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tlatlacatl.

Headword: 
tlatlacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a pious and humane person (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːtɬɑːkɑtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlacatl. piadosa persona y humana.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 137r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀTLĀCA-TL humane person / piadosa persona y humana (M) [(1)Tp.241, (1)Rp.147]. R has a short vowel and glottal stop in the reduplicated syllable instead of a long vowel. redup. TLĀCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 297.