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tecpillotl.

Headword: 
tecpillotl.
Principal English Translation: 

nobility; or having been well bred, courteous (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
teːkpilloːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tecpillotl. hidalguia, nobleza, buena crianza y cortesia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 93v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒCPILLŌ-TL nobility, good breeding / hidalguía, nobleza, buena crianza y cortesía (M) [(1)Bf.5v]. See TĒCPIL-LI, -YŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 217.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tecpillotl (noun) = the nobility; noble bearing, courtesy
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 162.