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hostia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
hostia.
Principal English Translation: 

the host, a sacramental wafer
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

teutlaxcaltzintli in Hostia Consagrada = consecrated Host Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 248.

tlateuchihualhostia = the consecrated wafer;
tlateochihualhostia = the consecrated Host
Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 143, 251.