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Letter P: Displaying 101 - 120 of 135

presentado.

presented
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, 1612)
see Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 228–229.

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presentaroa.

Orthographic Variants: 
preçetaroa

to present (a document in court, etc.)
(a modified 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), 230.

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presente.

Orthographic Variants: 
prenstente

present; also, a type of mass in the Catholic church
(a loanword from Spanish)

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presidente.

Orthographic Variants: 
precitente, presitinti

president

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preso.

a prisoner
(a loanword from Spanish)

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primeramente.

first

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primicia.

first fruits of harvest
(a loanword from Spanish)

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primo.

cousin
(a loanword from Spanish)

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principal.

principal (here, a title given to an indigenous noble)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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principala.

Orthographic Variants: 
prensipala

the female equivalent of principal, an indigenous person of high status
(a loanword from Spanish)

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príncipe.

prince
(a loanword from Spanish)

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prior.

Orthographic Variants: 
priyor

prior (of a house of religious)
(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), 230.

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prioste.

Orthographic Variants: 
frioste

the majordomo of a lay brotherhood or a cofradía
(a loanword from Spanish)

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privilegio.

Orthographic Variants: 
bribilegios, previlegio,

privilege; a special concession granted by the Crown; a document about privileges
(a loanword from Spanish)

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procesión.

Orthographic Variants: 
broseçio

a procession, a religious procession

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proceso.

a court case volume, the papers of a suit
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, 1615)
see Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 302–303.

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procurador.

untitled lawyer or lawyer without a degree, who goes before the court
(a loanword from Spanish)

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profeta.

Orthographic Variants: 
propheta

a prophet (see attestations)

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propios.

Orthographic Variants: 
probiyos

property under the control of the town council
(a loanword from Spanish)

(Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 563–563.

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provincia.

Orthographic Variants: 
probiçia, brobiçia, prouincia, probicia, bropicia, propiçia

province (a loanword from Spanish)

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