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acto.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
acto.
Principal English Translation: 

decree

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh yn iuhqui oquicac yn alcalde mayor niman isiuhca otlanahuati mochihuas yn acto ynic niman omotlastihuetz pregon ynic quichihuasque yn masehualtzitzin yn pantzin. = “When he heard that, the alcalde mayor quickly ordered that a decree be issued, so that a proclamation was hastily made that the indigenous people would make bread” (Townsend ed. 2010: 124). [annals (AP); time range: 1683]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 65.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Imperialism (Indigenous)
Imperialism (Spanish)
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns