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Ceres.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Ceres.
Principal English Translation: 

a Roman goddess
(a loanword that came from Spanish into Nahuatl)

Attestations from sources in English: 

In the Florentine Codex, Chicomecoatl is likened to Ceres: "juhqujma ceres catca." (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 35.