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tlatzacuiltiloni.

Headword: 
tlatzacuiltiloni.
Principal English Translation: 

someone worthy or deserving of punishment (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtsɑkwiltiloːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatzacuiltiloni. digno y merecedor de castigo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 142v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.*

Frances Karttunen: 

TLATZACUILTILŌNI someone deserving of punishment / digno y merecedor de castigo (M) [(2)Cf.45r]. See TLATZACUILTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 300.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment