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lexitol.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
lexitol.
Principal English Translation: 

regidor, town council member
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

nolexitolhuan = mis regidores, my regidores
Bancroft Mexican Ms. 469, Techialoyan manuscript, also known as Codex Nahuatl B -- Stephanie Wood translation. The same manuscript has noalcalte to refer to mi alcalde or my alcalde.

lexitol = alderman
Byron McAfee translation of the Tepotzotlan Techialoyan, published in Donald Robertson, The Techialoyan Codex of Tepotztotlan: Codex X (Rylands Mexican Ms. 1), Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 43:1 (Sept. 1960), 129.