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catedrático.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
catedrático.
Principal English Translation: 

a member of the cathedral chapter; or, a professor
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
cathedratico
Attestations from sources in English: 

no yehuantin cenpohualloncaxtolli in Doctoresme, yn quihualmololhuilitiaque miccatzintli. in teopixque clerigos Doctores. yhuã frayles maestros oc cenca yehuatzin in cenca mahuiztililoni masetro dr. diego de contreras cathedratico de escriptura. = also thirty-five ecclesiastical holders of the doctorate went gathered around the deceased, secular priests with the doctorate and friars with master's degrees, especially the very reverend master fray Diego de Contreras, professor of scripture. (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 206–207.

1609. años. yquac cathetratico omochiuhtzino yn escuelas real mexico in yehuatzin Padre maestro. fray diego de contreras. prior Sant. Augustin mexico = the year 1609, was when Father fray Diego de Contreras, master [in theology] and prior of San Agustín in Mexico, was given a chair at the royal school in Mexico (central Mexico, 1609)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 158–9.