P | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter P: Displaying 1541 - 1560 of 1579

proceso.

a court case volume, the papers of a suit
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, 1615)
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), 302–303.

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procurador.

untitled lawyer or lawyer without a degree, who goes before the court
(a loanword from Spanish)

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profeta.

Orthographic Variants:

propheta

a prophet (see attestations)

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propios.

Orthographic Variants:

probiyos

property under the control of the town council
(a loanword from Spanish)

(Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 563–563.

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provincia.

Orthographic Variants:

probiçia, brobiçia, prouincia, probicia, bropicia, propiçia

province (a loanword from Spanish)

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provincial.

Orthographic Variants:

brobiçial, propincial, Pruvicial, Prouinçial, proficial

head of province, church official (a loanword from Spanish)

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provisión real.

a very special order, beginning with the king's name
(a loanword from Spanish)

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provisión.

Orthographic Variants:

probicio, prouision, probiçio

provision; a governmental pronouncement
(a loanword from Spanish)

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provisor.

Orthographic Variants:

prouisor, probisor, frovisol, probisol

provisor, judge or inspector, often of part of the church and nominated by a bishop (RAE); referred to a Spanish official in New Spain
(a loanword from Spanish)

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psalmo.

psalm

Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 40.

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psalterio.

psaltery, songbook

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puchquiahuatl.

Orthographic Variants:

puchquiauatl, pochquiahuatl

a window that provides clarity (see Molina)

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puchquio.

fatty (an adjective)

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 96.

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