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teezo, tetlapallo.

Headword: 
teezo, tetlapallo.
Principal English Translation: 

the son or daughter of nobles (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

teezo, tetlapallo. hijo o hija denobles caualleros.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 93v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in tetlapallo, pilli tlatocapan pouhqui, tlatocaiutl itech quizqui, anoço uel tepiltzin anoço calpan tepiltzin. = The noblewoman [is] of nobilty, belongs to the order of rulers, comes from rulership whether she is legitimate or a bastard child. (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), 49.

in tetlapallo piltic tecpiltic, tlacamelaoac, uel ca yiollo, iolteutl. = the one of noble lineage [is] dignified, courteous, well disposed, good-hearted, steadfast. (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), 22.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites