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motlatia.

Headword: 
motlatia.
Principal English Translation: 

to hide (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

"çan mochi tlacatl motlatia..." = "Everybody just hides..." (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe, 2001, 27.

"aocmo valmixmana, ça motlatia..." = "they no longer presented themselves, but hid..."
(central Mexico, sixteenth century, no later than the 1570s) (Lockhart translation)
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 12, fol. 48r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/12/folio/48r?spTexts=&nhTexts= . Accessed 17 February 2026.