(a loanword from Spanish)
Principal English Translation:
deceased (adjective), deceased person (noun)
Attestations from sources in English:
mochihuac almoneda difunto franco felipe [S. Francisco Analcotitlan (Jalisco?), 1652]
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 8.
nonamictzi metztiCapCa difoto ytoCatzi Dn pedro pasqual = my late husband was named don Pedro Pascual, deceased (Toluca valley, 1822)
Miriam Melton-Villanueva, The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016), 175–176.
libor defoton = book of deceased people (San San Pedro y San Pablo Calimaya of 1653.
Salt Lake City, Genealogical Library, microfilm 695644, 1612–1651. Harvested from the microfilm by Stephanie Wood.
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
Juez difundos = juez de difuntos (Ciudad de México, 1582)
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), 180.