a son or daughter of a noble lineage (a metaphor) (see Molina)
IPAspelling:
teːtɬɑpɑlloː
Alonso de Molina:
tetlapallo. hijo o hija de noble linage. metaphora. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 109r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
TĒTLAPALLŌ someone well born / hijo o hija de noble linaje (M) [(1)Cf.99r]. This is conventionally paired with TĒEZZŌ, the whole phrase referring to good breeding. See TLAPAL-LI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 236.