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cemitoa.

Headword: 
cemitoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to strongly propose something; for many to be of the same perspective; to agree, to be of the same opinion

IPAspelling: 
semihtoɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cemitoa. nitla. (pret. onitlacemito.) proponer firmemente alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 16r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

cemitoa tic. (pret. oticcemitoque.) ser muchos de vn parecer y sentencia, o de vna determinacion.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 16r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

vncā mononotzque vncan quicemitoque, vncā quicentlalique in intlatol= There they consulted together, agreed, stated as one.
(Mexico City, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 164.