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cecexiuhtica.

Headword: 
cecexiuhtica.
Principal English Translation: 

every year, from year to year, annually

Orthographic Variants: 
cecexxiuhtica, cēcexxiuhtica, cēcexiuhtica
Alonso de Molina: 

cecexiuhtica. cada año, o de año a año. 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.

Frances Karttunen: 

Although all attestations are printed with a single x, the ones in C are in a section of examples formed with CĒCEM. The M assimilates to X by general rule to give the sequence XX.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yuh mochiuhtiaz in cecexiuhtica = se irá haciendo cada año (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 154.