provisor, judge or inspector, often of part of the church and nominated by a bishop (RAE); referred to a Spanish official in New Spain
(a loanword from Spanish)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 40.
Nahuatl form of cristiano, usually meaning not a Christian as such but a person of European extraction, a Spaniard
(a loanword from Spanish)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 232.
a cord, strip, or sash used to tie things together; or a rope that linked horses together so that they could walk in a straight line
(a loanword from Spanish)