to hold someone as a patron of the community or town council, as one who favors it, and to actually be that patron (see Molina)
IPAspelling:
tɑhmɑti
Alonso de Molina:
tamati. nino. (pret. oninotama.) tenerse alguno por patron y fauorecedor dela republica, y serlo. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 90v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.