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presente.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
presente.
Principal English Translation: 

present; also, a type of mass in the Catholic church
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
prenstente
Attestations from sources in English: 

sentetl [misa] Cantada de Cuerpo presente (Metepec, 1795)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 6.

Ca nica mesticate en prensente = for they are present here (Toluca region, 1759)
(Pizzigoni writes that this is rare to find a whole Spanish phrase in a Nahuatl sentence, such as we see in "en presente.")
(San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1736)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 159.

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