Tlillancalqui.

Headword:

Tlillancalqui.

Principal English Translation:

a high judge (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants:

tlilancalqui

Attestations from sources in English:

tlillancalquj tecutli = the Tlillancalqui tecutli (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, 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, 1951), 74.

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

"...Varios títulos de funcionarios como ezhuahuacatl ('rasgasangre'), tlillancalqui ('él de la casa negra'), tizocyahuacatl ('ofrendador de pulque blanco') y otros...."
Daniel Cosío Villegas, ‎Bernardo García Martínez, ‎and José Luis Lorenzo, Historia general de México.: Versión 2000 (2017).

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