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tlatocacalli.

Headword: 
tlatocacalli.
Principal English Translation: 

ruler's house(s)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatocacali, tlahtocacalli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtohkɑːkɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTOHCĀCAL-LI palace / palacios (C) [(2)Cf.71r]. See TLAHTOHQUI, CAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 266.

Attestations from sources in English: 

"...aço ytla yc otimotlatlacalhui yn ipan in tlatocacalli, yhuan yn ipan ysquich tlatocatlalli, milli, chinamitl..." = "...if you have done something wrong about the ruler's house and all the ruler's lands, fields and chinampas..." (Xochimilco, 1586)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 200.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ca tlatocacali can tlatocatlali = es casa de señorío, como también la tierra (Azcapotzalco, 1639)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 220–221.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Politics, Power, Governance
See also: 
tlatoani.
calli.