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cuenta.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
cuenta.
Principal English Translation: 

account (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
icueta, cueta
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

conitztia tocaytl yn ipa[n] libro in tlacapohualli yn itlacuilol Jua[n] Gallego yn imemoria yn icue[n]ta auh yquac q'[ui]ntequimacaque in telpopochtin yhua[n] ychpopochtin = iba mirando los nombres en el libro de censo, escrito por Juan Gallego, en su memoria, en su cuenta. Y entonces cargaron el tributo a los jóvenes y a las doncellas. (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 146–147.