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teococoliztli.

Headword: 
teococoliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

leprosy

IPAspelling: 
teoːkokoːlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

teococoliztli. lepra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 100r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

aço teucocoliztli itech motlaliaya aço ixpopoiutia anoço quexilivia = Either leprosy settled on him, or he went blind, or the groin was disordered
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 167.