(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
presente.
Principal English Translation:
present; also, a type of mass in the Catholic church
(a loanword from Spanish)
Orthographic Variants:
prenstente
Attestations from sources in English:
sentetl [misa] Cantada de Cuerpo presente (Metepec, 1795)
Ca nica mesticate en prensente = for they are present here (Toluca region, 1759)
(Pizzigoni writes that this is rare to find a whole Spanish phrase in a Nahuatl sentence, such as we see in "en presente.")
(San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1736)
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