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real.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
real.
Principal English Translation: 

a coin or a value amounting to one-eighth of a peso (noun); or, royal (adjective)
(loanwords from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Audiencia Real = Royal High Court
Consejo Real de Indias = Royal Council of the Indies
Escribano Real = Royal Notary

quitlatzontequilizque yn tecuitlatoque Audiencia Real (Tlaxcala, 1545)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 34.

yn tlatoque ompa yn mexco audiencia Real (Coyoacan, 1557)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 12.

nican toconteyxpantilizque yn audiencia Real (Mexico City, 1587)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 32.

yn ixpatzinco y conjeso Real de yndias (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.

ahuatiencia real yntlanahuatiltzin (Cuernavaca, circa 1610)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 4.

ante mi Don nicolas pelipe escrivano Real de la audiencia (S. Simón Pochtlan, Azcapotzalco, 1695)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 5.

nican ipan Casas Reales Mexicapan (Azcapotzalco, 1738)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 17.

themes: 
Markets, Commerce, Economy
Money, Coins, Wealth