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Peralta.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Peralta.
Principal English Translation: 

a Spanish last name, e.g. don Gastón Peralta, viceroy

Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 166–167.

Orthographic Variants: 
Perarta
Attestations from sources in English: 

visoRey Don Caston de perarta = The viceroy was don Gastón de Peralta. (entry for 1566)
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 166–167.