itlacapan tepetl.

Headword: 
itlacapan tepetl.
Principal English Translation: 

the slope of a mountain (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

itlacapan tepetl. ladera de sierra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 42v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

This term is found in Molina both as itlacapan tepetl and tepetl itlacapan. Is the slope corporal, body-like?

In the Florentine Codex we see "in novian itlacapan" = "everywhere on its body," in reference to a baby's body. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 206.

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