(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
adagio.
Principal English Translation:
adage
Attestations from sources in English:
Ic ompoalli oce capitulo, vncan mjtoa: in cequj tlâtlatolli, itoca adagios, in qujtoaia, ioan in qujtoa. = “Forty-first Chapter. Here are told some of the sayings called adages, which they told and [still] tell” (Sahagún 1950–82, VI: 219). [cultural encyclopedia (FC 6); time range: 1578–1580]