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ruler ("one who speaks"), dignitary, judge, speaker, great lord, king; also used in reference to various high Spanish officials.
"...literally 'speaker' and in practice the dynastic ruler of an altepetl."
in tlatoani ceoallo hecauhio, malacaio, puchotl, aueuetl, tequaio, imacaxio, tleio, tocaiô. = The ruler [is] a shelter-- fierce, revered, famous, esteemed; well reputed, renowned. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Teutl Tlahtohuani Dios = God, the highest ruler
with vowel length indicated (and h for the glottal stop):
tlahtohuāni, tlahtoāni
tlatoque = abs. pl. of tlahtoāni, based on the pret. agentive
(pl. tlatoque) usually dynastic ruler of a sovereign polity; in this book translated as ruler
tlahtoca- = combining form of tlahtoani; based on the pret. agentive of ihtoa
tohueytlahtocauh = our great ruler
huey tlatoani Dios = the great ruler God (Santa Ana, Toluca Valley, 1728)
dynastic ruler
tohueytlahtocatzin = our great ruler
tlacatlatoani = ruler of the people(?), something like tlacatecuhtli(?)
ytlatocayo = the rulership of
[Ocoyacac Techialoyan, 2vta.]
tlatoani = speaker; supreme ruler
Auh intla çiuapilli vnan tlacatia iuhquin tlatoani mochiva = And if a noblewoman was born then, she became like a ruler.
tlatuane = addressing a tlatoani
In a testament from 1634, San Cristóbal Ecatepec, pertaining to don Hilario de Gante, one finds an impressive array of tlatoque witnesses, including men from Tizayuca, Tehuacan, Jaltocan, Jilotzinco, Acolma, Huaquilpan, and Zumpango.
tlahtocatilmahtli = the cape of high nobility, the lord's cape
notlaçotatzin tlatohuani don Martin Ceron = mi querido padre, al señor don Martín Serón (Xochimilco, 1650)
tlatuhani quezcopixqui = cavayero casiqui (eighteenth-century translation, Guerrero)