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(a loanword from Spanish)
a Spanish surname; e.g. the name of a Doctor (probably a high court justice) in sixteenth-century New Spain (a loanword from Spanish)
The Franciscan friar, Pedro Orozco, was an important religious figure in sixteenth-century New Spain. He is mentioned in a testament of the gobernador of Tlahuelilpan (Pachuca, modern state of Hidalgo) of 1586 as the guardián of the big monastery in Mexico city.
Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima, eds., Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 262–263.
padre fray Pedro Oroz guardian Mexico S[an] Francisco = Padre fray Pedro Orosco, guardián del convento grande en México (Tetepango, Hidalgo, 1586)