tlatocacalli. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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