Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

cámara.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
cámara.
Principal English Translation: 

chambers of a judge (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

itech poviz ycamara de su mgt (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22.

yn epoualli pesus ytech pouiz in igamarra de su magdad ynn opoualli pesos yntech pouiz quicuizque in juezesme in quitlatzontequillizque = 60 pesos of it will go to His Majesty's chamber and 40 pesos will be for the judges to take who pronounce sentence concerning the offense [Mexico City (by Coyoacan writer?), 1557)]
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 35.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

pena ypan nictlalia V pesos tomines ynic tlaxtlauaz ytech pouiz in icamara su magestad = impongo una pena de 5 pesos en tomines que pagará a la cámara de su magestad (Ciudad de México, 1563)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 103.

themes: 
Legal Matters, Documents