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tepoz cuarto.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
tepoz cuarto.
Principal English Translation: 

a quarter, a known type of money in the sixteenth century (see Molina) (partly a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
tepuz quarto, tepuzquarto, tepoz quarto
Alonso de Molina: 

tepuz quarto. quarto moneda conocida.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 104r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Money, Coins, Wealth