(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
Velázquez.
Principal English Translation:
a name, a Spanish surname; it was also taken by indigenous people; e.g. don Hernando Velázquez, named in the testament of don Antonio Pimentel, possibly an executor or possibly a ruler to succeed Pimentel; he was a son of Coanacochtzin
(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)