L

Letter L: Displaying 21 - 40 of 100
Orthographic Variants: 
lança

a lance (see attestations)
(a loanword from Spanish)

a cofradía devoted to the souls of the dead in purgatory
(a loanword from Spanish)

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 116, n2,

Orthographic Variants: 
Laso de la Vega

this name was carried by the secular cleric, Bachiller Luis Lasso de la Vega, who wrote the first Nahuatl account of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1649

See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 20.

Latin
(a loanword from Spanish)

loyal
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
lecsio

a reading; a religious reading during mass; a lesson
(a loanword from Spanish)

milk
(a loanword from Spanish)

to bend without breaking.
# una persona, animal silvestre y animal domestico dobla una cosa y no lo quiebra. “el abuelo de Erika dobla el palo del plátano lo que esta macizo porque no llega para agarrarlo es muy alto”.
to bend s.t. without breaking it.
# una persona, animal silvestre y animal domestico dobla una cosa y no lo quiebra. “el abuelo de Erika dobla el palo del plátano lo que esta macizo porque no llega para agarrarlo es muy alto”.

a Spanish surname carried, for example by don Fray Bartolomé de Ledesma, bishop of Oaxaca, a Dominican friar

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
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), 28–29.

to read
(a loanword from Spanish)

a league
(a loanword from Spanish)

for a fire to crackle.
# se prende el fuego. “esa basura se prende bonito porque esta bien seco”.
for a fire to catch, after all.
for an injured joint to make a continuous popping sound with movement.