telpochcaltin
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl telpochcaltin, plural of telpochcalli.
Noun
[edit]telpochcaltin
- 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.