to go down, descend, sink; to lower, diminish; to digest food (see Karttunen, Lockhart, and Molina); also, to descend the musical scale
Remember, the famous man named Cuauhtemoc has this verb in his name. Another example of a name with -temoc is Tlacochtemoc, found in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, having been extracted from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (folio 525 verso).
temo (verb) = to descend, to let fall
xoxopan in ompa temo yan ipalnemohua = From Green Places he descends (ca. 1582, central Mexico)
mpa oaltemuc in Galilea, ce altepetl ipan, itocaioca Nazareth = he decended there in Galilee, in a certain city, a place called Nazareth (late seventeenth century, Central Mexico)
temoz = it is to descend (the music scale)