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tlatlacolmaca.

Headword: 
tlatlacolmaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to sin; to corrupt someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtlacōlmaca
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtɬɑkoːlmɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTLACŌLMACA vrefl, vt to sin; to corrupt someone / peca (Z), lo corrompe, lo envicia (Z) [(5)Zp.34,54,95,173,195]. See TLAHTLACŌL-LI, MACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 263.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)