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colera coztic.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
colera coztic.
Principal English Translation: 

yellow fever (partly a loanword from Spanish, colera, cholera) (20th c., Milpa Alta)
Los cuentos en náhuatl de Doña Luz Jiménez, recop. Fernando Horcasitas y Sarah O. de Ford (México: UNAM, 1979), 36–37.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Opanoc in ipan xiuhtin icuac oyeya revolucion ican franceses. Iman on tlacatzintli omocococ ican cocoliztli oquicuitiaya colera coztic. = Pasó (esto) en los años de la revolución de los franceses. En esa época murió un hombre de la enfermedad llamada fiebre amarilla. (s. XX, Milpa Alta)
Los cuentos en náhuatl de Doña Luz Jiménez, recop. Fernando Horcasitas y Sarah O. de Ford (México: UNAM, 1979), 36–37.

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