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tlatlapitzaliztli.

Headword: 
tlatlapitzaliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the blowing or sounding of trumpets (a ceremony or ritual)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 80, 126.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtɬɑpiːtsɑlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlapitzaliztli. el acto de soplar amenudo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 139r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)