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alcalde actual.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
alcalde actual.
Principal English Translation: 

present judge

Attestations from sources in English: 

yûa ca honotzaloque testigos marcos ipolito Bentora de santiago – alcalde hoctoal – fiscal mayor don Juo de santiago testigo. =“And the witnesses who were summoned are Marcos Hipólito; Ventura de Santiago, present alcalde; and the fiscal mayor, don Juan de Santiago, witness” (Pizzigoni ed. 2007: 119). [will (NI 8, TT 15, TT 19, TT 25, TT 36, TT 57, TT 65, TT 66, TT 97); time range: 1728–1810]
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), 71.