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trinidad.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
trinidad.
Principal English Translation: 

trinity
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

wavering with e and i, "trenidad" and "trinidad" (Trinity) or "besitador" and "visitador" (inspector)
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 52.

Santisima Trinidad = Holy Trinity
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 232.

Ma ximopaquiltitie yn timahuizteocaltzin yn sanctissima Trinidad. Pater noster. Aue maria. = May you be joyful, you who are the honored temple of the Most Holy Trinity. Our Father. Hail Mary. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, IMS Monograph series, No. 13 (Albany, New York, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University of Albany, 2001), 119.

in sanctissiman trinidad (Huejotzingo, 1560)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 29.

yn ssantisima trinidad yn dios tetatzin yn [dios] tepiltzin yn dios espu santo (Coyoacan, 1588)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 2.

sanctissima trinidat dios tetatzin dios tepiltzin dios espu sancto y ça ce huell nelli dios (San Bartolomé Atenco, Coyoacan, 1617)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 3.

yn yehuatzin s.tissima drinidat yn nican onicnotlachpanililiaya (Coyoacan, 1621)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 17.

santissima trinidad dios tetatzin dios tepiltzin dios espiritu sto can (sic) ce huel nelli dios (Coyoacan, 1622)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 4.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)