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tlatepachoani.

Headword: 
tlatepachoani.
Principal English Translation: 

one who shoots with stones, or who stones someone or something (see Molina); the root may also be related to one who moves stones (see Sahagún)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtepɑtʃoɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatepachoani. el que tira con piedra, o da pedrada.
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: 

n totechiuhcaoan yn ochpanaco, in tlatzonjlpico in tlatepachoco: injc contetecatiaque in petlatl, in icpalli = those who came clearing the way, who came clearing the trees, who came clearing the stones, so that they established the realm
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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, 1961), 68.

themes: 
Stones, Masonry