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Tzapocuetzin.

Headword: 
Tzapocuetzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name; the name of a ruler of Huexotla (Huejutla) (see the Florentine Codex)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Injc matlactlomome tlatoanj, itoca tzapocuetzin: in tlatocat matlacxiujtl ioan exiujtl = The twelfth ruler was named Tzapocuetzin. He ruled thirteen years. (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), 14.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Tzapocuetzin: "El de faldellín de zapote." Las pinturas representan dicha prenda salpicada de manchas de esta fruta Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 193.