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Francisco.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Francisco.
Principal English Translation: 

Francis or Francisco (a saint's name; a given name); a Spanish given name for a male

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents Francisco in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ton palancisco de Balcas chicotencatl = D. Francisco de Vargas Xicotencatl (Estado de Hidalgo, ca. 1722?)
Rocío Cortés, El "nahuatlato Alvarado" y el Tlalamatl Huauhquilpan: Mecanismos de la memoria colectiva de una comunidad indígena (New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Colonial Spanish American Series, 2011), 31, 43.

Xa Palacisco ynahuac Tepotzotlan = en San Francisco, junto de donde llaman Tepozotlan (Zempoala, "1610", but probably Techialoyan -related)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 82–83.