jailor Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), 54.
highest magistrate of a district, often equivalent to "corregidor" and usually held by a Spanish colonial official The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.
full wording for "alcalde," in this context, an indigenous officer, on the town council (cabildo) The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.
a first-instance judge attached to a local municipal government; this was a term used for both indigenous and Spanish officials Caterina Pizzigoni, Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007), 248.
the office of the alcalde, a member of the municipal council (partly a loanword from Spanish, with the -yotl ending from Nahuatl) (ca. 1582, Mexico City) Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 136–137.
a constable, a sub-cabildo officer The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.