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testimonio.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
testimonio.
Principal English Translation: 

testimony, or a legal statement, document
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

ma uallauh testimonio amopampatzinco (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.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

testimonio yC oquiz, 2 pos = salió el testimonio dos pesos. (San Andrés Chiautla, 1638)
Benjamin Daniel Johnson, “Transcripción de los documentos Nahuas de Tezcoco en los Papeles de la Embajada Americana resguardados en el Archivo Histórico de la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México”, en Documentos nahuas de Tezcoco, Vol. 1, ed. Javier Eduardo Ramírez López (Texcoco: Diócesis de Texcoco, 2018), 172–173.

themes: 
Legal Matters, Documents