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prioste.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
prioste.
Principal English Translation: 

the majordomo of a lay brotherhood or a cofradía
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
frioste
Attestations from sources in English: 

onca yez ce xilla ypan motlaliz yancuic frioste = There will be a seat on which the new prioste will sit
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 100–101.

qchivazque vey Election necentlaliliztli ynic quitemozque yn aquin Prioste yntatocauh yez Confradiasme = they will hold a big election, a gathering, in order to search for the one who will be the prioste, the ruler of the members of the cofradía
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 100–101.

juo bernabe frioste [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.

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