an abbess, a female superior in some religious communities (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
ciua teoyotica tepachoani
Alonso de Molina:
ciua teoyotica tepachoani. abadesa. 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.