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tzopitia.

Headword: 
tzopitia.
Principal English Translation: 

to prick something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzopitiā
IPAspelling: 
tsopitiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TZOPITIĀ vt to prick something / lo pica (Z) [(3)Zp.98,199,217]. This seems to be a Z variant of TZOPĪNIĀ. Z also has TZOPŌNIĀ, which M glosses as synonymous with TZOPĪNIĀ. See TZOPĪNIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 319.