English

Noun

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...

   • 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.