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arcopuente.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
arcopuente.
Principal English Translation: 

arch bridge

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh ynic mopanolti Çahuapan motete picas yc moyequixti ynic mochihuan yn arcu buhuete (Zapata y Mendoza 1995: 352). =In order to cross the river Zahuatl beams were laid down and adjusted in order to construct an arch bridge. [annals (ZM); time range: 1665]
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), 86.