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tlatecpantli.

Headword: 
tlatecpantli.
Principal English Translation: 

something that has been ordered, arranged

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), 238.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtekpɑːntɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatecpantli. lo mesmo es que tlatecpanalli.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 134v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATECPĀN-TLI something set in order, a queue, file, or tail / cosa ordenada (M), alineado, cola (de gente, de cosas), por turno (T for CA TLACTEPĀN-TLI) [(2)Tp.236]. See TECPĀN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 295.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

patientive noun from tecpāna. 238

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)