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calpulli

The English word “calpulli” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. An Aztec organizational unit below the level of the altepetl or city-state.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Classical Nahuatl calpolli, from calli (“house”) + -polli (“big”).

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