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cihua tecuhtli.

Headword: 
cihua tecuhtli.
Principal English Translation: 

a female boss or a woman who owns enslaved human beings (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ciua tecutli, cihua tecutli, cihua teuctli
Alonso de Molina: 

ciua tecutli. ama o señora de esclauos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 22v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

"Malintzin nauatlato teucciuatl chane teticpac" = a reference to Malintzin the interpreter for Cortés, called a tecuhcihuatl (lordly woman) and said to be a resident of Teticpac; this is found on a manuscript that shows the Spaniards' march on Tenochtitlan in the year One Reed (1519)
Libro de los guardianes y gobernadores de Cuauhtinchan (1519–1640), ed. Constantino Medina Lima (México: CIESAS, 1995), 28–33.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"Malintzin nauatlato teucciuatl chane teticpac" = una frase que aparece bajo la fecha de 1519 y junto a un grupo de españoles a caballo
Libro de los guardianes y gobernadores de Cuauhtinchan (1519–1640), ed. Constantino Medina Lima (México: CIESAS, 1995), 28–33.

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Politics, Power, Governance
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Women, Men, Gender