tlatzoponiani.

Headword:

tlatzoponiani.

Principal English Translation:

a thing that pierces (see Molina)

IPAspelling:

tɬɑtsopoːniɑːni

Alonso de Molina:

tlatzoponiani. punzador tal.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 143v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

tlatzoponia = it pierces things (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 109.