⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-06

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

campanilla.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
campanilla.
Principal English Translation: 

a bell, hand bell (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nochtîn oquimotlaliliquê mecatl in quechtlantzinco oyàquê Cathedral yh[ua]n nohuian teopantin omotemachtiliquê. Auh in yoaltica ipan mátlaҫe hora omotemachtiliaya nohuian calnacazco: oquin moyecanilitinemia ce trompeta: yhuan campanilla = Todos se pusieron sogas en el cuello, fueron hasta la Catedral y predicaron en todas las iglesias. En la noche a las once predicaban en todas las esquinas: llevaban por adelante una trompeta y campanilla (Puebla, 1797)
Anales del Barrio de San Juan del Río; Crónica indígena de la ciudad de Puebla, xiglo XVII, eds. Lidia E. Gómez García, Celia Salazar Exaire, y María Elena Stefanón López (Puebla: Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, BUAP, 2000), 110.