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diácono.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
diácono.
Principal English Translation: 

a deacon in the church
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
diagono
Attestations from sources in English: 

ome diagonos. almaticas quitlalitiaque = two deacons wearing their vestments. (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), 204–205.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

mitoz ce misa yca diacono y sudiacono auh motlaliz ofrenda tlaxcali yhuan bino yhuan yey carneros yhuan yey cabras = se diga misa de cuerpo presente con diácono y subdiácono, y se le ponga se ofrenda de pan y vino, con tres carneros y tres cabras (Tepexi de la Seda, 1621)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 106–107.