Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

patio.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
patio.
Principal English Translation: 

a patio
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
pantiyotl
Alonso de Molina: 

patio. cosa que tiene precio, o que vale tanto.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 80r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

mochica ypantiyo yhua sen cabanllerisia (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.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings