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tlatecuhtililli.

Headword: 
tlatecuhtililli.
Principal English Translation: 

to recognize a noble status or to knight someone (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatecutililli
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatecutililli. ennoblecido o armado cauallero.
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.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites