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marques tlatocayotl.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
marques tlatocayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

the Marquesado; the tributes domain under the control of the Marqués del Valle (partly a loanword, and, originally, the implication was the estate of Hernando Cortés, who was named the Marqués in the late 1520s) (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

marques tlatocayotl. marquesado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 52v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Tributes, Taxation, Service