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tlatoquilia.

Headword: 
tlatoquilia.
Principal English Translation: 

the final or last item in a succession, the thing at the rear, at the back, or left behind (see Molina); can also refer to the last born child

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtokiliɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatoquilia. çaguero, o cosa postrera y vltima.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 142r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh ca iz tica in titeach in tiacapãtli, auh ca iz tõca in titlacoieoa, auh in titlatoqujlia; auh iz tica ompa tica on in tixocoiutl = And here standest thou who art the oldest, the firstborn; and here art thou who art the second; and thou who followest; and thou who standest, who standest there, thou who art the youngest (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), 87.

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