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Letter A: Displaying 941 - 960 of 2523

albaricoque.

a fruit; often, an apricot or an apricot tree (a loanword from Spanish, but originally from Arabic)

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alcahuete.

procurer

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alcaide.

Orthographic Variants: 
algaite, alcayde

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.

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alcaideti.

to hold the office of alcaide

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alcalde actual.

present judge

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alcalde de corte.

criminal judge belonging to the high court (Royal Audiencia) of New Spain and viceroy.

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alcalde mayor.

Orthographic Variants: 
alcarte mayor

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.

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alcalde ordinario.

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.

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alcalde pasado.

former judge

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alcalde.

Orthographic Variants: 
algalde, alcalte

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.

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alcaldeti.

to be or to become judge

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alcaldeyotl.

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.

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Alemania.

Orthographic Variants: 
Alimania

Germany

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alfajor.

corn cake with brown sugar and pepper

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alfanje.

a type of sable, short and curved, with a sharp edge only on one side, except at the point (see attestations)

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alfehorez.

crumbly shortbread.
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alférez.

ensign

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alfiler.

pin

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alfombra.

carpet

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alguacil mayor menor.

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