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-tepec.

Headword: 
-tepec.
Principal English Translation: 

on the hill or mountain, this locative would be attached to a place name and tell where (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Coatepec = lugar del cerro de las serpientes
Chiltepec = lugar del cerro de los chiles
Mazatepec = lugar del cerro de los venados
Rebecca Horn's notes from Nahuatl study sessions with James Lockhart in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

See also: 
tepetl.