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viudo, viuda.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
viudo, viuda.
Principal English Translation: 

widower, widow

Attestations from sources in English: 

viuda ica = widow of, or more literally, widow through (with ica substituting for the Spanish con, possibly influenced by the Spanish phrase casado con which became casado ica in Nahuatl)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 55.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent
See also: 
cahualli.
cihuacahualli.
tlacacahualli.
tlacacahualli.