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nentlacatl.

Headword: 
nentlacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

worthless person, good for nothing (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nēntlācatl
IPAspelling: 
neːntɬɑːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

NĒNTLĀCA-TL worthless person, good for nothing / hombre sin provecho (C) [(2)Cf.59r,177]. See NĒN, TLĀCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 168.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nentlacatl = hombre vano, inútil (es una simple yuxtaposición o aglutinación)
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxviii.