(a loanword from Spanish)
patriarch
(a loanword from Spanish)
(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
in amixquichtin yn amisanctohuan dios. in amapostolome, yn amevangelistasme. yn anpatriarchasme. yn anprophetasme yn andoctoresme yn anconfessoresme. yn anvirginesme, yn amixquichtin ilhuicac anchaneque = you who are God's saints, who are apostles, who are evangelists, who are patriarchs, who are prophets, who are doctors [of the Church], who are confessors, who are virgins: all of you who reside in Heaven (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
yn omoteneuhtzino yntlaçottatzin S. benito. Patriarcha, = their said precious father St. Benedict the patriarch (central Mexico, 1613)
in cenca mahuiztililoni teopixque in moteneuhtzinohua predicadores. yn itlaçopilhuantzitzinhuan totlaçomahuiztatzin, S. Domingo. Patriarcha, = the very reverend friars called Preachers, the precious children of our precious father Santo Domingo the patriarch. (central Mexico, 1612)
yn intocan patriarcasme yn yacuican tlal. c tlaca = they who are called patriarchs, people from when the earth was new (early seventeenth century, Central Mexico)
totlaçomahuiztlatzin S. Franco Patriarcha = our precious revered father San Francisco the patriarch (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)