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tlatecpanchan.

Headword: 
tlatecpanchan.
Principal English Translation: 

a court, a home or place where things are set right (?) (see attestations and other words beginning tlatecpan-)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh in ilhuicatl ca ytlatocatecpanchantzinco in Dios = Heaven is the royal palace of God
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 89.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh in ilhuicatl ca ytlatocatecpanchantzinco in Dios = El Cielo es morada, y Palacio Real de la Magestad de Dios
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 88–89.