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tepan nitlatoa.

Headword: 
tepan nitlatoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to advocate or plead on behalf of someone, to speak for someone (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tepan nitlahtoa
Alonso de Molina: 

tepan nitlatoa. (pret. tepan onitlato.) abogar, o rogar por otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

abogar, hablar por otro. tepan ni, tlatoa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1555, part 1, Spanish to Nahuatl, f. 1v.

themes: 
Legal Matters, Documents
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition