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pipica.

Headword: 
pipica.
Principal English Translation: 

to drip (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
pipikɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

pipica. (pret. opipicac.) gotear alguna cosa liquida.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 82r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The term includes reduplication.

Tehuatzin chalchiuhmatlalaacaxtzintle in motetzinco hualmeyaz, hualpipicaz, yn ilhuicac yolilizchalchiuhmatlalatzintli = you of vessel of jade-green water of life (early seventeenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 55.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

pipica = gotear
Vocabulario Espanol-Náhuatl, http://www.vocabulario.com.mx/nahuatl/diccionario_nahuatl_g.html.