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ordinario.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
ordinario.
Principal English Translation: 

ordinary (a modifier for alcalde, a town council officer)
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

ixpan mochiuh magco sr— blas osorio allde hordinario (Tlaxcala, 1566)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 1.

Don franco hernandez gobernador yhua antonio perez allde ortinaria juo pablo juo ximeo alldes andres bunefacia regitor mayor franco juares rexitor alexu martonato rexito (Tehuacan, 1642)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 24. (another time ordinario)

Antonio perez alldes ordinario Juon Pablo alldes Juo ximeo alldes (Tehuacan, 1642)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 24.

omochihua ynin memoria yn imixpan alldes ordinarios [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.

Dn Juo mathiaz Ade ordinario (Azcapotzalco, 1703)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 14.

yn aalCaltt horor por Sudad yhuatzin fiscal santa ygelcia ... y nehuatl Commo alCalde hordinario (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. 10.