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tlateomatini.

Headword: 
tlateomatini.
Principal English Translation: 

a person who is devout (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑteoːmɑtini
Alonso de Molina: 

tlateomatini. persona deuota assi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 135v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Jnonotzaloca in tlateomatini -
Tla xiccaqui in titlateomatini in teoyotica timoyolnonotzani in tixp̄īāno = Admonition to the pious one
Listen, you who are pious, who spiritually meditate, who are a Christian. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 150–151.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)