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tlateca.

Headword: 
tlateca.
Principal English Translation: 

to put something on the ground; or, to make a stone or adobe wall (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlateca. ni. (pret. onitlatecac.) poner o assentar algo enel suelo, o hazer pared de piedra o de adobes. s. assentar lasdichas piedras o adobes. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 134v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Stones, Masonry