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.

sastre.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
sastre.
Principal English Translation: 

tailor
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn Maria ycnocihuatl xocoatolnamacac ynin ynamic yn franco tlatzonqui Sastre catca nican chaneque ytepotzco yn teopantli = María, a widow and seller of bitter atole, died. She was spouse of the late Francisco, a tailor, and they lived here behind the church (central Mexico, 1613)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 250–1.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh in chalchiuitl amo ycuiliuhticatca ça tepan ohualnez ca saco catca huey tepol çan patlachtic niman ocoluic Pedro Flores sasdre epañol = Y una piedra que llaman chalchihuite que no está asentada por que [a]pareció, se halló después acá en la caja donde estaba y es grande, chata y luego se la dejo a Pedro Flores, sastre español (San Sebastián, 1576)
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), 174–175.