Meanings
- pluralplural of telpochcalli
Instruction there was more extensive than in the telpochcaltin, the schools for the common people run by the clans...
2005, Ancient American Poets2 more examples
It was only in those telpochcaltin, or lower schools, that we commoners mingled as equals with the children of the nobility...
2006, Gary Jennings, AztecCalmecacs and Telpochcaltin were responsible for facilitating young people’s interaction with legal, military, and religious aspects of Aztec life.
c. 2013, Julia Flood, The Aztec Approach to Education
Origin
- Classical Nahuatltelpochcaltin
- Englishtelpochcaltin
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl telpochcaltin, plural of telpochcalli.
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