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cecentlamantin.

Headword: 
cecentlamantin.
Principal English Translation: 

one after another (said of handfuls, or groups of people) (an adverb) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
çecentlamantin
IPAspelling: 
seːsentɬɑmɑntin
Alonso de Molina: 

cecentlamantin. manada a manada. aduerbio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 15v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

cecentlamantin ynpan miyotia = he strikes various classes of people with his beams;
"The centlamantin, the 'various classes of people,' on whom, as we learn from the Anales de Quauhtitlan, this planet sheds his light...."
Eduard, Seler, Codex Vaticanus no. 3773 (Codex Vaticanus B) (Berlin and London: Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1902–1903), English edition by A. H. Keane, 1903 319.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

auh yn quipiaya itecpoyohuan mieccan in quitzacuaya. Auh yn izquican tzacuia izquican çecentlamantin oncan catca yn itecpoyohuan = y tenia en varios lugares palacios oscuros o nebulosos en los que él se encerraba, y de todos se excusaba
Anales de Cuauhtitlan: Noticias históricas de México y sus contornos, (México: Impr. de I. Escalante, 1885), 16–17.