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Zorita.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
Zorita.
Principal English Translation:
a Spanish surname; the name carried by a "doctor" (and "oydor" or judge of the high court, the "Real Audiencia") in sixteenth-century New Spain, don Alonzo de Zorita, 1548–1556
Orthographic Variants:
Zurita
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
Zorita sent Lucas García, juez de residencia, to take information about a land struggle from witnesses in the neighborhood of San Sebastián in Mexico City in 1558. This was a conflict between indigenous residents over land that once pertained to a man named Atlixeliuhqui. The juez was probably also indigenous.
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