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cochino.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
cochino.
Principal English Translation: 

pig

Orthographic Variants: 
cochinito
Attestations from sources in English: 

Pig farms were abundant in the Valley of Toluca.

cochinito = a loanword from Spanish, meaning piglet
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 28.

se macho onictlaneuhti nomonta yhua nomona yhua macuili cochinitos tepitoto = I rented a male mule to my father-in-law and my mother-in-law, and 5 small pigs (Santa Ana, Toluca Valley, 1737)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 120.