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Mendieta.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Mendieta.
Principal English Translation: 

a Spanish surname
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Many noble indigenous men took the name Mendieta owing to the presence of Jeronimo de Mendieta, a famous Franciscan chronicler.