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patlachtic.

Headword: 
patlachtic.
Principal English Translation: 

something broad (see Karttunen); wide (see Sahagún)

IPAspelling: 
pɑtɬɑtʃtik
Alonso de Molina: 

patlachtic. cosa ancha, asi como mesa viga. &c
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 80r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PATLACHTIC something broad / cosa ancha, así como mesa, viga, etc. (M) [(2)Tp.137,173]. See PATLACHOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 189.

Attestations from sources in English: 

patlachtic = wide (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 109, 110.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh in chalchiuitl amo ycuiliuhticatca ça tepan ohualnez ca saco catca huey tepol çan patlachtic niman ocoluic Pedro Flores sasdre epañol = Y una piedra que llaman chalchihuite que no está asentada por que [a]pareció, se halló después acá en la caja donde estaba y es grande, chata y luego se la dejo a Pedro Flores, sastre español (San Sebastián, 1576)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 174–175.