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prior.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
prior.
Principal English Translation: 

prior (of a house of religious)
(a loanword from Spanish)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 230.

Orthographic Variants: 
priyor
Attestations from sources in English: 

priyor fray Juan Nunez= prior fray Juan Núñez (Culhuacan, 1580)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 191.

ytencopatzinco prior = by order of the prior (Culhuacan, sixteenth century)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 13.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)