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pedazo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
pedazo.
Principal English Translation: 

a piece of something; especially, a piece of land
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
pendasso, pedaSo, pedazito
Attestations from sources in English: 

se pendasso tlalis = one piece of land (San Jerónimo Acazulco, 1737)
Stephanie Wood collection, notes from Nahuatl documents in the file "Bills of Sale," citing AGN (Mexico) Tierras, exp. 4, f. 6r.–7r.

oc Se pedaSo solar nican Mantica tlaMimilolpa = another piece of a lot here in Tlamimilolpan (San Pedro Calimaya, Toluca Valley, 1755)Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 195.

"ce pedazito tlaltontli" = a small pedazo (parcel) of land; this measured 175 "varas castellanas" divided between East and West, with each half composed of 87.5 varas; and half the land sold in 1773 for 19 pesos (Toluca city, 1758)
Stephanie Wood collection, notes from Nahuatl documents in the file "Bills of Sale," citing Archivo General del Estado de México, RPEM 6, exp. 18, ff. 1r.–2v.

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Land Tenure