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tlacatlacua.

Headword: 
tlacatlacua.
Principal English Translation: 

to eat at midday, to dine late (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahcahtlacuā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhkɑhtɬɑkwɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHCAHTLACUĀ pret: -CUAH to eat at midday, to dine late / ayunar (M), come al mediodía (T) [(3)Tp.230]. T has lost the glottal stop of the second syllable. See TLAHCAH-TLI, TLACUĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 260.

themes: 
Time, Calendar, Frequency