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padrino.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
padrino.
Principal English Translation: 

godparent
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

motlanāquililia yn tenapaloque inPadrinos = their godparents are responsible.
Andrés Sáenz de la Peña, Manual de los Santo Sacramentos, 1643, f. 35r.; translation by Mark Z. Christensen, "Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Ecclesiastical Texts and Local Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan," Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2010, Appendix E, 16.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ynopadrino y señor do Fernadon Cortes marques del Balle. 186 años titolos. 1541 años = mi padrino el señor don Fernando Cortez, marqués del Valle; títulos año mil quinientos diez y nueve (San Marcos Tlayacac, Morelos, "1546"; no earlier than 1666)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 74–75.

omohi nopadrino y señor don Bernadon Cortes marques del Balle = se hizo padrino el señor don Bernardo Cortés (San Marcos Tlayacac, Morelos, "1546"; no earlier than 1666)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 72–73.

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