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tlatocatequitl.

Headword: 
tlatocatequitl.
Principal English Translation: 

the task of governing (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlahtohcātequitl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhtohkɑːtekitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHTOHCĀTEQUI-TL possessed form: -TEQUIUH the task of governing / oficio de gobernar (C) [(2)Cf.76v,1114r]. See TLAHTOHQUI, TEQUI-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 266.

Attestations from sources in English: 

qujtlalcahujzque, in jxqujch in aqualli, in naiectli. Auh injc qujtlaquauhtzitzqujzque, in piltequjtl, in tlatocatequjtl: auh in jxqujch qualli iectli = he urged them to abandom all the evil, the bad; and to take firm hold upon the duties of nobility, the duties of rulership, and all the good, the fine (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 87.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance