metáfora.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
metáfora.
Principal English Translation: 

a metaphor
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 1.

Orthographic Variants: 
metaphora
Attestations from sources in English: 

cenca maviçauhquj in machiotlatolli in metaphoras = highly admirable are the figures of speech, the metaphors (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 1.

mjiec in moteneoa in neiollotilonj, cenca qualli in tlatolli in juh tlatoa cioa, ioan cenca quâqualli in metaphoras = Much is mentioned which is memorable - very good discourses of the sort which women say; and very good are each of the metaphors (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 151.