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tlatectli.

Headword: 
tlatectli.
Principal English Translation: 

something cut (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlatectli. cosa cortada, guirnalda, o cosa escanciada o echada en algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 134v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

tlatectli, a verbal noun, meaning "something cut" (from the verb tequi, to cut)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 185.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

acatlatecctli = tubo (de acatl y tlatectli)
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (México: Siglo XXI, 1996), 8.

tlatectli = cosa cortada (Tetzcoco, 1595)
Antonio del Rincón, Arte mexicana, 34, reproducida digitalmente por el Internet Archive, http://archive.org/stream/artemexicana00rincrich/artemexicana00rincrich_....

mochi amatlatectl xochitl nauhcapa quitlalique tlamaçeuhque yhuan nepapa yolcame yolticatca = Las flores eran de papel cortado. En las cuatro partes colocaron ermitaños y differentes animales vivos (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 348-349.