a tribunal, or the stage/platform where legal sentences were pronounced (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
tetlatzontequilica icpalli. tribunal, o estrados donde se pronuncia sentencia. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 110r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.