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merino.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
merino.
Principal English Translation: 

constable or watchman in an outlying district
(a loanword from Spanish)

The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.

Attestations from sources in English: 

y huehuetque y merinos (Cuernavaca, circa 1610)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 4.

yn axcan maximoteilhuilli yn timerino maxiccaquilti yn motlahuilanal maximotecalpanhuilli yn nican ticmocahuilia yn meliotzin. = Now you, the merino, tell the people; inform those who depend on you; go from house to house, you who turn in the money.(Anales de Juan Bautista, 1582, f. 35v)
Ezequiel G. Stear, Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2025), 132, citing Anales de Juan Bautista, 1582, f. 35v.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Av i merino vel quimocuitlaviz vel ypan [tachado: vel ypan] tlachiyaz y av in tla ҫan quitlaltziuhcavaz yc cavaltiloz yn itequiuh = Y los merinos cuidarán mucho, esto tendrán por cargo, y si por flojera lo dejan, se les hará abandonar su cargo (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 302–303.

auh ynic yecauh cali bigas ca ytlatetemol tequihuaque Francisco Diaz merino Fracisco Coxolitl tepixque yhuan hocçequitin tequihuaque. = Para terminar la casa, las vigas fueron buscadas por los tequihuaque Francisco Días, merino y Francisco Coxolitl, tepixque y otros tequihuaque. (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 240–241.