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(a loanword from Spanish)
don Juan de Tovar was the son of don Miguel de Alvarado Oquiztzin; don Juan worked at the main friary of the Franciscans in Mexico City; his mother was a resident of Santa María Cuepopan and she was a merchant's daughter; this don Juan would have two daughters, doña María Egipciaca (she married a Spaniard named Blas Vásquez, a merchant in San Juan Ohtlipan) and doña Bárbara (who married her uncle, don Antonio Valeriano, governor and judge in Azcapotzalco and had a son don Nicolás Valeriano).
(central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Juan de Tovar was a "celebrated Jesuit nahuatlato"