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madre.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
madre.
Principal English Translation: 

mother
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

nehual nifiscal de la mader santi yglesia = I am the fiscal of the holy mother church (Santa María de la Asunción, Toluca Valley, 1758)Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 185.

canpa omotoCazino noSª Madre moeStiCatca = where my late lady mother was buried (Mexico, seventeenth-century)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 141.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent