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tlecopatl.

Headword: 
tlecopatl.
Principal English Translation: 

an office; or, a chamber where something is stored, a storeroom or warehouse (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlecopatl. oficina, o camara donde algo se guarda.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 147r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Ihuan niquitohuan yn tlecopatl yn nepantla actica ytech pouhqui yn itoca Juo piyoch = And I declare that the storeroom that is in the middle (of the complex) belongs to someone named Juan Piyoch (Culhuacan, 1580)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 21.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings