Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

visitaroa.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
visitaroa.
Principal English Translation: 

to visit with the purpose of making an inspection, to inspect
(a Nahuatlization of the Spanish word visitar)

Attestations from sources in English: 

ohuasico quitotihuitz quilmach visitador ynic quibisitaroz yn nechichiuhtli yn quitocayotia yn caxtilteca armas (Puebla, circa 1680–1700)
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. 9.

yn ohuasiCo oquitotihuitz quilmach visitador ynic quibisitaroz yn nechichiuhtli yn quitocayotia yn caxtilteca armas = there arrived one who came saying he was supposedly an inspector who had come to inspect the equipment that the Spaniards call arms
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), 126–127.