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teopantopile.

Headword: 
teopantopile.
Principal English Translation: 

a church official of some sort
(loaned to Spanish as topile de la iglesia)

S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 237.

Attestations from sources in English: 

teopantopileque = church officers with unknown duties, probably the same as constables. (Coyoacan 1588)
Rebecca Horn, Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519–1650 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 163.