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octubre.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
octubre.
Principal English Translation: 

October
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
otobre, ocdopre
Attestations from sources in English: 

omochiuh mexico yc 9 de otubre de 87 aos .. yc 12 otubre (Mexico City, 1587)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 32.

axca ypan sabato 20 tonaLi metzLe ocdopre yhuan xihuiL 1629 anos [S. Francisco Tzacualco (in west?), 1629]
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 31.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

otobre = octubre (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, 556–557.