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médico.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
médico.
Principal English Translation: 

doctor
(a loanword from Spanish)

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
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), 200–201.

Orthographic Variants: 
medigo
Attestations from sources in English: 

españoles. ca çan yehuantin quimomictilique in medigos yn iticitzitzinhuan quimopahtiliaya = Absolutely all of the religious and Spaniards said that it was just the doctors, his physicians, who killed him. (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), 200–201.

themes: 
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine