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matrimonio.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
matrimonio.
Principal English Translation: 

matrimony, marriage
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

yhuan durante Sto matrimonio Dios otehmomaquili nahui topilhuan = and during our holy marriage God gave us four children (Saltillo, 1776)
Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 438–439.

yn achto titepilhuan yn ipan sen matrimoni ... auh ynic ompan matrimonion (Centlalpan, Chalco, 1736)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 10.

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