⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-06

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

tlamantli.

Headword: 
tlamantli.
Principal English Translation: 

a separate thing, or an item; used as a counter and usually has a number or quantifier with it (see Lockhart); legal party in land sales

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamatl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑmɑntɬi
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

a separate thing, an item. used as a counter, usually has a number or quantifier bound to it. related to mani?
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 237.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Nicān nemî ōntlamantin tlācâ = Two sorts of people live here
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 64.

ma quimatican: yn quezquitlamantli = let them find out a few things
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 126–127.

v ynic sentlamantli niquihohua = First I say
v ynic ontlamantil niquitohua = second I say
v ynic yetlamantli = third I say
v ynic nauhtlamantli = fourth I say
v ynic macuiltlamantli ŷ niquitohua = fifth I say (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1654)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 137.

y 2tli = second
(Pizzigoni writes: "His 'Y 2tli' corresponds to standard ic ontlamantli.") (Santa María de la Asunción, Toluca Valley, 1762)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 167.

3–tli nitlanahuatia = 3rd I order (Santa María de la Asunción, Toluca Valley, 1762)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 171.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

huel meyec tlamatl y mitotique = Mucha variedad hubo de bailes (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 354–355.

yc otlamatl capitan = segundo capitán (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 206–207.

Ynic 2 tlamantli = Lo segundo (Ciudad de México, 1583)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 176.

Tlamantli indica pares de objetos, cosas parecidas o diferentes.
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), xlvi.

themes: 
Legal Matters, Documents