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tlatecpanaliztli.

Headword: 
tlatecpanaliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the order and alignment of something; or the act of putting people or other things into a procession, by rows (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtekpɑːnɑlistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatecpanaliztli. orden y concierto de alguna cosa . s. el acto de poner la gente o otra cosa en procession, o por sus rengleras.
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.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATECPĀNALIZ-TLI alignment, order, the act of lining something or someone up / orden y concierto de alguna cosa … el acto de poner la gente o otra cosa en procesión o por sus rengleras (M) [(2)Zp.8,215]. See TECPĀN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 295.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in tlatecpanaliztli in tianqujzco: auh in iehoatl tlatoanj, cenca qujmocujtlaujaia = the ordering of the market place, and [how] the ruler took great care of it (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 67.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)
Markets, Commerce, Economy
Religion (Christian)