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sacerdote.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
sacerdote.
Principal English Translation: 

priest
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
saserdotis
Attestations from sources in English: 

huel mocha ic timoyolmelahuaz. ixpan in sacerdote in teopixqui = You are to confess every single one of them before a priest. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 130–131.

teupixqui sacerdote = priest
Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 249.

ca yoqui techmonahuatiLia sancta ecLesea yhuan teopixquime saserdotis = thus the holy church and the priestly ministers admonish us (Zacualco/Tzacualco, 1629)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 31.

ixpan teopixqui sacerdote = face to face with the priest (Juan Bautista, Mexico City, 1599)
Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 137.