C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 3561 - 3580 of 5778

contaduría.

Orthographic Variants:

contadoria

the royal accounting office
(a loanword from Spanish)

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contetoquili.

something that follows or comes after other things (see Molina)

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contlalia.

Orthographic Variants:

contlallia

to put, to place, to lay something down, or set it (see attestations)

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one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

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contlilhuia.

koːntɬiːlwiɑ

to take soot from a pot and put it on another person (see Molina)

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contlilli.

koːntɬiːlli

the soot from pots, or the like (see Molina)

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contoca in noyollo.

to realize what is being said (see Molina)

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contorno.

contour; shape
(a loanword from Spanish)

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contradecir.

to contradict, or protest the possession of land asserted by another person
(a loanword from Spanish)

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contradeciroa.

to contradict
(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), 215.

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contratación.

contracts, legal business
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Contreras.

a Spanish surname

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Contzinco.

a place name; e.g. Santa Cruz Contzinco, in or near Mexico City

(central Mexico, 1613)
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), 244–245.

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convalesciente.

Convalescent, a name for a religious order
(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
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), 202–203.

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convento.

Orthographic Variants:

conuento

monastery
(a loanword from Spanish)

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
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), 198–199.

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conyayahual.

a millipede or a type of worm (see the description and the image in the DFC)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 98r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/98r/images/ad5fdffd-4... Accessed 4 November 2025.

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