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tlatlapo.

Headword: 
tlatlapo.
Principal English Translation: 

a doorman (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlapo. portero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 139r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlatlapoh = gatekeeper (sixteenth century, central Mexico)
Berenice Alcántara and Pedro A. Muñoz, "'You Here, Don't Do It This Way': Allegory and Domestic Dwellings in Bernardino de Sahagún's Nahuatl Sermons of the House," Ethnohistory 71:2 (April 2024), see p. 152.