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venta.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
venta.
Principal English Translation: 

sale; part of the expression "bill of sale"
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

ynin amatlacuiloli carta de benta .. yni carta de venta (Coyoacan, circa 1615)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 15.

escritura de Benta año de 1738 (heading) (Azcapotzalco, 1738)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 17.

tictemaca inin eSCritura de Benta (Azcapotzalco, 1738)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 17.

mota inpan in escritura de benta Oquimochihuililique (Azcapotzalco, 1738)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 17.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

inic huell omochihuaz yn venta = para que se haga la [carta de] venta (Ciudad de Mexico, 1578)
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), 158.