a history or a story of what is being done now, what is happening now (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
quin axcan nemilizamatl. historia de lo que de presente se haze, o acaece. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 90r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.