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emperador.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
emperador.
Principal English Translation: 

emperor (often, a reference to Carlos V)
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlatlatlauhtiloc. in huey tlahtohuani Don carlos. v. emperador. = prayers were offered for the great ruler don Carlos V, the emperor. (1608, Central Mexico)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 138–139.

yn don carlos emperador catca (Huejotzingo, 1560)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 29.

ychpoch y Emperador de Roma ca ysuprina (Granada, Spain, 1598)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 33.

yhquac momiquili emperador Don Carlos = At this time the Emperor don Carlos died.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 162–163.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Rey henperador Sepania panderas macoc ciudad Tlaxcallan = El rey, emperador de España, le dio banderas a la ciudad de Tlaxcala (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), 232–233.