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Cecepatic.

Headword: 
Cecepatic.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name; a ruler's name (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
Cecepaticatzin, Cecetzin
Attestations from sources in English: 

Don xp̃oual cecepatic, ic caxtolli oce, tlatocat in tenochtitlan: nauhxiujtl = Don Cristóbal Cecepatic was sixteenth, and he ruled Tenochtitlan four years. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, 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, 1951), 5.

Don Cristóbal de Cecepatic (or Cecetzin) is said to have been a governor of Mexico City, ca. 1536–1565. He appears on the Codex Reese (ca. 1565) that is held in the Beinecke Library at Yale University.
See the library's webpage about the codex. https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3600017?image_id=1114791

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Cecepaticatzin, Cecepátic o Cecetzin (Cristóbal de Guzmán): Se refiere posiblemente al que tartamudea (reiteración de ceppa), o como indica Garibay, al tartajoso. Ambas pinturas aluden al parloteo de un ave.
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 192.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance