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Tlailotlac.

Headword: 
Tlailotlac.
Principal English Translation: 

a high magistrate; an ethnicity; or, a personal name

Orthographic Variants: 
Tlayllotlac
Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents Tlailotlac in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

ytoca tlayllotlac = named Tlailotlac (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 144–145.

The term tlailotlaqui may have also meant "work in filth;" scum; a term applied in contempt.
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 164.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Titre d'un magistrat. / titre de l'un des trois juges du tribunal tlâcatêccatl. = Title of a magistrate. / title of one of the three judges of the tlâcatêccatl tribunal.
A. Wimmer, 2004, cited in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlailotlac/68608