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diezmero.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
diezmero.
Principal English Translation: 

the person who collected the diezmo, the tenth (tithe)

Orthographic Variants: 
diesmero, diesmeroti
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yhua oticpopoloque ynquac huitza diesmeroti ome tiçetlaCaltl ynpanpa trigo çetlaCatl ynpanpa polostin. Yntech omonec yn Cotlaqueque yc omoCouhtlqrali yhuan bino ome peSo, 2 pos = Y gastamos algo cuando los dos diezmeros vienen: un hombre para el trigo y otro hombre para los pollos. Y [los diezmeros] necesitaban comer. Entonces pagamos comida y vino para ellos. [Costó] dos 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), 178–179

themes: 
Money, Coins, Wealth
Religion (Christian)