alcalde ordinario.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword:

alcalde ordinario.

Principal English Translation:

full wording for "alcalde," in this context, an indigenous officer, on the town council (cabildo)
The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.

Attestations from sources in English:

The orthorgraphic variant alcalde ordenaryo pasato is attested in a colonial (seventeenth-century?) Guatemalan music manuscript.
Fernando Horcasitas y Alfred Lemmon, "El Tratado de Santa Eulalia: un manuscrito musical náhuatl," Tlalocan 12 (1997), 87.

themes:

Occupations

Politics, Power, Governance