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traidor.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
traidor.
Principal English Translation: 

traitor
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Oquimoquixtilico yn Judio yn Cihuapili Sancta maria oncan oquimahuaco yn Judiosme yhuan yn traedores = Saint Mary came to get the Jew out[of the grave]; there she came to scold the Jews and the traitors (from the footnote) in MNA Molina 1552, p47, this is "quimauhvaco. yn mochintin yn Judiosme yhuā y traedores.
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 140–141.