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contaduría.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
contaduría.
Principal English Translation: 

the royal accounting office
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
contadoria
Attestations from sources in English: 

çan quechcotonalloque cenpohuallonchiuhiuhcnahui yn omoteneuhque mimicque auh yn intzonteco oncan tepilolcuauhticpac quinçaçalloque, auh yn intlacnacayo oncan quincallaquique yn contadoria tlatzĩtla = 29 of the said dead were only decapitated and their heads stuck on top of the gallows. They put their torsos in the royal accounting office, down below, (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), 224–225.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yhua mexiCo Contandoria oquimotepotztoquillique tlatoque ynpanpa tlaCallaquilli ReçaCo oyaquetlatlazque, 3 pos = Y los tlatoque investigaron el rezago de tributos ante la contaduría de México, [costó] tres pesos. (San Andrés Chiautla, 1638)
Benjamin Daniel Johnson, “Transcripción de los documentos Nahuas de Tezcoco en los Papeles de la Embajada Americana resguardados en el Archivo Histórico de la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México”, en Documentos nahuas de Tezcoco, Vol. 1, ed. Javier Eduardo Ramírez López (Texcoco: Diócesis de Texcoco, 2018), 174–175