temachti.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
temachti.
Principal English Translation: 

a teacher

Alonso de Molina: 

temachti. enseñador, predicador, o maestro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 96v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

This term is used in colonial Nahuatl testaments in Toluca to speak of an indigenous person assigned to teach the Christian doctrine locally. Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 210, 248.

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