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calpolco.
Headword:
calpolco.
Principal English Translation:
an indigenous temple (as translated from Sahagún); calpulli and calpolli are two spellings of the same root behind this term
Orthographic Variants:
calpulco
Attestations from sources in English:
calpolco qujcaoaia, in jchan tlacateculotl = they left him to the tribal temple, the house of the devil (central Mexico, sixteenth century) (Note the influence of the Christian colonizers behind the use of "devil" -- SW.)