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tlatlatiani.

Headword: 
tlatlatiani.
Principal English Translation: 

one who makes fire, hides something, or kills someone (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtɬɑːtiɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlatiani. el que haze huego, o esconde alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 139r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATLĀTIĀNI someone who hides something, murderer / el que ... esconde alguna cosa (M), matón (T) [(1)Tp.236]. See TLĀTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 299.

See also: 
tlatlati.
tlatlatia.