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penatia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
penatia.
Principal English Translation: 

to assign a fine to someone
(a loanword from Spanish; from pena, fine)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 229.

Alonso de Molina: 

penatia. nite. (pret. onitepenati.) poner pena al que traspassa la ley.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 80v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. pena, -tia2. 229

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

sesen chiutica mo popoacan in ome atemitli, au no quin mo penatili aquin amo tlapale huis ix mo popoas ca huei pena ipan mochihuas = cada año limpiaron loas dos depósitos de agua. Pues también, éllos, conminaron con pena á los que no quisieren ayudar a limpiar, a éstos, gran castigo se les impondría (Estado de Hidalgo, ca. 1722?)
Rocío Cortés, El "nahuatlato Alvarado" y el Tlalamatl Huauhquilpan: Mecanismos de la memoria colectiva de una comunidad indígena (New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Colonial Spanish American Series, 2011), 34, 46.

ni quin penatia maca mo xeliutican = los amonesto bajo pena: Que no hagan divisiones (Estado de Hidalgo, ca. 1722?)
Rocío Cortés, El "nahuatlato Alvarado" y el Tlalamatl Huauhquilpan: Mecanismos de la memoria colectiva de una comunidad indígena (New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Colonial Spanish American Series, 2011), 29, 40.