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centetzontli.

Headword: 
centetzontli.
Principal English Translation: 

someone strong, manly, noble; possibly equal to a tlacatecatl, ranking military officer (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

centetzontli = a strong man (central Mexico, later sixteenth century)
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 10, f. 14r., drawing from López Austin & García Quintana (2000) and León García-Garagarza (2023), https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/10/folio/14r

centetzontli = one of the nobility (central Mexico, later sixteenth century)
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 6, f. 57v., drawing from Anderson & Dibble (1953–1982), https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/6/folio/57v

centetzontli = seemingly equated with the title tlacatecatl (central Mexico, later sixteenth century)
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 6, f. 57v., drawing from León García-Garagarza (2023), https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/6/folio/57v

See also: 
Tlacatecatl.
centetl.
tzontli.