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tlacuauhtlamatiliztli.

Headword: 
tlacuauhtlamatiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

confidence, faith, trust (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacuāuhtlamatiliztli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwɑːwtɬɑmɑtilistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACUĀUHTLAMATILIZ-TLI confidence, faith, trust / confianza, fe, esperanza (Z) [(4)Zp.32,56,59,205]. S has this with the entirely different sense of ‘deception,’ which is apparently an error. M has several synonymous phrases with –TECH and involving the element tlaquauh and meaning ‘to have confidence in someone.’ See TLACUĀUHTLAMAT(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 258.