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príncipe.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
príncipe.
Principal English Translation: 

prince
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

in huel tlacpac moyetzticate. in huel teachcauhtzitzinhuan. clerigos. in cabildo tlaca. motenehua Canonigos cathedrales. yn itlaçomahuizpilhuantzitzinhuan totlaçomahuiztatzin Señor S. Pedro. Principe, quihtoznequi tlahtocapiltachcauhtzin yn ipan S.ta yglesia, = the most highly placed, very senior secular priests, the people of the cathedral chapter, called canons of the cathedral, precious revered children of our precious revered father San Pedro the Prince, that is to say, the senior royal noble in the holy Church. (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 204–205.

catca y principe (Granada, Spain, 1598)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 33.