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Honduras.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
Honduras.
Principal English Translation:
a country in Central America (a loanword from Spanish)
Orthographic Variants:
huduras
Attestations from sources in English:
Don Andres, motelchiuh ic matlactli omome tlatocat in tenochtitlan exiujtl iepan espaňoles noujian iauqujçato in cuextlan, huduras, auh in iehoatl nonum de guzman, qujuicac in vej culhoacan vmpa mjqujto. = Don Andrés Motelchiuh was twelfth, and he ruled Tenochtitlan three years in the time of the Spaniards, who went forth everywhere to conquests -- to Cuextlan, to Honduras. And Nuño de Guzmán took him [in conquest] to Colhuacan, where he met his death. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)