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centecpantin.

Headword: 
centecpantin.
Principal English Translation: 

twenty people (twenty head of cattle, twenty tribute payers, etc.); singular: centecpantli (one tecpantli, i.e., one times 20)

Alonso de Molina: 

centecpantin. veynte personas, o veynte cabezas de ganado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 17v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yz centecpantin cuetlaxcovapan yaz yc tlaxtlavilozque memedio totomin yz [sobre el renglón: ce]cemilhuitl = una veintena irá a Cuetlaxcohuapan y les será pagado medio tomín cada día (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 292–293.

themes: 
Numbers, Math
See also: 
centecpantli.