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tesorero.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
tesorero.
Principal English Translation: 

treasurer
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
desurero, desurello, thesorrero, tesorrero
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

desurello = treasurer
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 120.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Seen spelled as desurero.
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 55.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tesorrero mochiuh Juan Bueno hespanol = Fue tesorero Juan Bueno, español. (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), 282–283.

themes: 
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