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Letter C/CH: Displaying 3621 - 3640 of 5795

copinia.

kopiːniɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
copīniā

for something to pull itself loose (see Karttunen)

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copīniliā.

to copy s.t. for s.o.
#copiar. Nic. persona ve una cosa de otro y después lo hace como lo vio. “Adriana le copia a María lo que hace en un papel.”
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copitl.

kopitɬ

firefly or glow worm (see Molina)

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copitztic.

kopitstik

something narrow, tight (see Karttunen)

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coquitl.

firefly.
# Un mosquito de color gris que sale nada más en la noche y en la oscuridad. “En la noche los moscos nada más andan prendidos”.
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Córdoba.

a Spanish surname; e.g. don Diego Fernández de Córdoba, a viceroy; his title was Marqués de Guadalcázar

(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), 258–259, 264–265.

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cordon.

cord, rope
(a loanword from Spanish)

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coro.

a choir (part of a church building; or, a singing group )
(a loanword from Spanish)

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corona.

a crown

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coronahua.

Orthographic Variants: 
coronaua

crowned; or, a person with a crown (see Molina) (the root is corona, Spanish for crown)

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coronaroa.

to crown
(a Nahuatlization of a Spanish verb, coronar)

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coronatia.

to crown someone (see Molina)
(at root, a loanword from Spanish, corona, crown)

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corotopile.

indigenous community member in charge of the church choir

S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 235.

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Corpus Christi.

Orthographic Variants: 
corpos xpi

Corpus Christi
(loanwords from Spanish)

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corral.

Orthographic Variants: 
colal

corral, an enclosure for animals
(a loanword from Spanish)

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corredor.

corridor
(a loanword from Spanish)

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corregidor.

Orthographic Variants: 
gonregidor, gorregidor, colexitol

title for a colonial official, the highest magistrate of a district, often equivalent to "alcalde mayor"
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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corregidoryotl.

the place, office, and/or district of a corregidor (colonial Spanish official) (at root, a loanword from Spanish)

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corte.

the court
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Cortés de Motecuhzoma.

Orthographic Variants: 
Cortés de Moteuczoma, Cortés de Moctezuma

doña María Cortés de Moteuczoma, mestiza, was a daughter of don Hernando Cortés and doña Isabel de Moteuczoma Tecuichpochtzin (and therefore the granddaughter of Motecuzoma Xocoyotl); doña María was also given by Cortés to be the wife of a Spaniard, Juan de Tolosa, a miner in Zacatlan (all according to don Fernando de Alvarado Tezozomoctzin, and recounted by Chimalpahin); such a genealogy links pre-contact with Spanish colonial times (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 86–87.

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