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tlatlapatza.

Headword: 
tlatlapatza.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtɬɑpɑtsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlapatza. nitla. (pret. onitlatlatlapatz.) despedazar, o quebrantar algo en muchas partes.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 138v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATLAPATZ(A) vt to break something to bits / despedazar o quebrantar algo en muchas partes (M) [(1)Cf.74r]. See TLAPĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 298.