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difunto.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
difunto.
Principal English Translation: 

deceased (adjective), deceased person (noun)

Orthographic Variants: 
difundo, difoto, defoton
Attestations from sources in English: 

mochihuac almoneda difunto franco felipe [S. Francisco Analcotitlan (Jalisco?), 1652]
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 8.

nonamictzi metztiCapCa difoto ytoCatzi Dn pedro pasqual = my late husband was named don Pedro Pascual, deceased (Toluca valley, 1822)
Miriam Melton-Villanueva, The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016), 175–176.

libor defoton = book of deceased people (San San Pedro y San Pablo Calimaya of 1653.
Salt Lake City, Genealogical Library, microfilm 695644, 1612–1651. Harvested from the microfilm by Stephanie Wood.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Juez difundos = juez de difuntos (Ciudad de México, 1582)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 180.