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codicilio.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
codicilio.
Principal English Translation: 

codicil, will, testament
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
codicilio
Attestations from sources in English: 

testamtos aço memoria cobdicilio = testaments, memoranda, or codicils (Coyoacan, 1622)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 4, 68–69.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

nitlanahuatia yn tla cana centetl neciz notestamento yn ye huecauh onicchuih noço codicilia amatepiton = mando que ahora ni en ningún tiempo que pareciere otro testamento, memoria o codicilio (Tepotzotlan, 1653)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 256–257.