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Sumo Pontífice.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Sumo Pontífice.
Principal English Translation: 

the High Pontiff (title for the Pope) (a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlatocateopixqui Summo Pontifiçe = the ruler-priest, the High Pontiff Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 81.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlatocateopixqui Summo Pontifiçe = el Summo Pontifice Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 80–81.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)