to attend in place of another; to represent or impersonate someone else, possibly in a farce (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
yxiptlati
IPAspelling:
iːʃiptɬɑhti
Alonso de Molina:
ixiptlati. nite. (pret. oniteixiptlatic.) asistir en lugar de otro, o representar persona en farsa. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 45v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.