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tlacatemi.

Headword: 
tlacatemi.
Principal English Translation: 

for a crowd of people to gather (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlācatēmi
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːkɑteːmi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀCATĒM(I) pret: TLĀCATĒN for a crowd of people to gather / se congrega mucha gente, se junta mucha gente, multitud (T) [(1)Tp.240]. See TLĀCA-TL, TĒM(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 252.