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(a loanword from Spanish)
monastery
(a loanword from Spanish)
auh quil oc yehuantin yn tliltique cihua callaquizquia yn monasterios oncan motzacuazquia ynic oc yehuantin cihuateopixcatizquia monjastin mochihuazquia, = And reportedly only the old women would be left in the nunneries to teach, and reportedly black women would enter the nunneries too and be enclosed there, so that they too would become nuns. (central Mexico, 1612)
yeixi u htica Zatepan. oquimanque Yn monasterio = Ye:i xiuhtica za:te:pan, o:quimanqueh in monasterio = Three years afterwards, they moved to the monastery.
yhuan oncan omochiuh yn inmonasterio.tzin Padreme S. Augustin. ynic cemihcac oncan moyetztiezque. quinmopachilhuiz. que yn atzaqualca = and there was built the monastery of the Augustinian fathers, so that they will forever reside there and govern the Atzaqualca (central Mexico, 1611)
techmopielia totlaçonantzin Sta Mª de la Merced ytech tipohui ymonesterio = Nos cuida nuestra querida madre Santa María de la Merced, y pertenecemos a su monesterio.
onpa quixohuato in monesteria Conception in çihua p[adr]eme = allá salieron del monasterio de las monjas [cihuapadreme] de la Concepción (ca. 1582, México)