telpochcaltin

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl telpochcaltin, plural of telpochcalli.

Noun[edit]

telpochcaltin

  1. plural of telpochcalli
    • 2006, Gary Jennings, Aztec:
      It was only in those telpochcaltin, or lower schools, that we commoners mingled as equals with the children of the nobility...
    • 2005, Ancient American Poets:
      Instruction there was more extensive than in the telpochcaltin, the schools for the common people run by the clans...
    • c. 2013, Julia Flood, The Aztec Approach to Education:
      Calmecacs and Telpochcaltin were responsible for facilitating young people’s interaction with legal, military, and religious aspects of Aztec life.