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Letter S: Displaying 41 - 60 of 83

selar.

Orthographic Variants: 
celar, çelar, seral

a building, perhaps a municipal council building; possibly a jail

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semana.

Orthographic Variants: 
cemana, samana, çamana

a week, the week
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sembradura.

seed grain, for planting a field
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sementera.

a planted field; also, part of a title for a land judge
(a loanword from Spanish)

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semibreve.

semibreve (a musical term, this is a loanword from Latin and Spanish)

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seminario.

Orthographic Variants: 
saminario

a seminary
(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), 210–211.

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semitono.

a half tone (in music) (see attestations)

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Senete.

a Spanish surname; e.g. Diego de Senete was a Spaniard who lived in Mexico City, married to Mariana Rodríguez, a Spanish woman; they bought a house from Fray Gerónimo de Zárate, a Franciscan chaplain that few Nahuas liked; they lived in Acatlan, a part of 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), 254–255.

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señor.

lord; Mr.
(a loanword from Spanish)

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señora.

Orthographic Variants: 
xinola, xinolati, xinōlah, señōrah, senora, seniora, ceñora, señoratin

lady
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), 241.

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señoría.

Orthographic Variants: 
su señoría

(your) grace
(a loanword from Spanish)

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señorío.

kingdom, rulership, patrimony
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sentencia.

Orthographic Variants: 
sentensia

a sentence, a judgment
(a loanword from Spanish)

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septiembre.

Orthographic Variants: 
setiempre, setienpre, septimpre

September
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sepulcro.

Orthographic Variants: 
çebulcoro, seporcoro

sepulchre, sepulcher, grave, tomb; a small chest where the sacred host is preserved in Catholic churches
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sepultura.

Orthographic Variants: 
sepoltora, seportora, ceportura

a burial, a grave (see attestations)

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sermón.

a sermon
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sermonario.

sermon(s) (see attestations)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Serna.

a Spanish surname; e.g. Dr. don Juan Pérez de la Serna, archibishop of Mexico; he was a secular priest originally from Zamora in Spain

(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), 260–261.

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servicio.

service, tribute labor
(a loanword from Spanish)

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