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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.

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