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arcángel.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
arcángel.
Principal English Translation: 

archangel

Attestations from sources in English: 

Achtopa çempoalli onçe xihui yn omonexti San Diego ye oncan yn quimanilico Archangel yn Diego Lasaro oilhuitlaco (Zapata y Mendoza 1995: 252). =San Diego appeared [here] 21 years before the archangel came to take Diego Lázaro, who had arrived to observe a feast day. [annals (ZM); time range: 1677]
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), 85.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)