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tetzauhtlatoa.

Headword: 
tetzauhtlatoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to say terrible and scandalous things, or to discover a secret and have it cause a great malaise and scandal (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tetzauhtlatoa. ni. (pret. onitetzauhtlato.) hablar cosas terribles y escandalosas, o descubrir algun secreto por el qual se causo algun gran mal y escandalo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 111r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tetzauhtlatoa in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).