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macitica.

Headword: 
macitica.
Principal English Translation: 

something whole, something unadulterated (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mahciticah
IPAspelling: 
mɑhsitikɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

macitica. cosa entera, fina o pura.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 50v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MAHCITICAH something whole, something unadulterated / cosa entera, fina, o pura (M9 [(1)Rp. 100]. See AHCI, the verb CĀ .
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 130.