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niño.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
niño.
Principal English Translation: 

child
(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), 202–203.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh yc niman yehuantin quimontocatiaque in pipiltzitzinti ycnotlaca in huapahuallo S. Juan de letra in motenehua colegio de los niños, quihuicaq̃. yn incruz teocuitlatl plata tepitzin. = And next there followed the orphaned children who are raised at San Juan de Letrán, which is called the Colegio de los Niños; they took along their small silver cross. (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), 202–203.

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence