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tlatocatia.

Headword: 
tlatocatia.
Principal English Translation: 

to take or to have another person as a ruler (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtohkɑːtiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatocatia. nicno. (pret. onicnotlatocati.) tomar o tener por señor a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 140v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in canjn iooaia itoloc, iocoloc in tecutizque in tlatocatizque = where in the beginning it was determined, ordained that they would be lords, that they would be rulers (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 83.