autoridad.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
autoridad.
Principal English Translation: 

authority

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn moteneuhque. al͞l͞d͞es. quimocaquitique yhua͡ quimohuelmachitique. yhuā. niman ipan. quimotlalilique yn imauturidad. y tecreto. Justicial. yxquich. ypan. ynhuelitiliz. justicia. ynic huel neltiz mopiaz. ynin tlanamaquiliz. amatl. = “The aforementioned alcaldes heard it and approved it. And then they exercised their authority with a judicial decree. Everything is with the consent of the judges so that this bill of sale will surely be validated and enforced” (Olko, Sullivan, Szemiński eds. 2018: 108–110). [bill of sale (LSD 2); time range: 1612]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 93.