⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-17 - Repairs are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

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

septiembre.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
septiembre.
Principal English Translation: 

September
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
setiempre, setienpre, septimpre
Attestations from sources in English: 

In ipan Altepetl mexco cempoualli omome ylhuitia yn metztli setiempe yn ixiuhtz[in] totecuio yetzontli yoan castolpoualli yhoan onpoualli oncastolli omome xiuitl [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.

metztli sentien[...]... yn ipan tonalli martes a 18 de setienbre yni año de 1736 años (Centlalpan, Chalco, 1736)
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. 3.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

setiempre, setienpre, septimpre = septiembre (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), 526–527.