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arca.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
arca.
Principal English Translation: 

a chest or trunk; or, a community chest (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
arga
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Inic ce tlacatl noconeuh ytoca Quidelia Xocoyotl nicemaca centetl arca yuan ce metlatl yuan centetl tilmatli yuan tomines macuilli pexus = A la una de mis hijas que se llama Quiteria Xocoyotl le doy una arca y una piedra de moler, e una manta e cinco pesos en tomines (Xochimilco, Tlaxcala, 1569)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 152–153.