(a loanword from Spanish)
Principal English Translation:
a deacon in the church
(a loanword from Spanish)
Attestations from sources in English:
ome diagonos. almaticas quitlalitiaque = two deacons wearing their vestments. (central Mexico, 1612)
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), 204–205.
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
mitoz ce misa yca diacono y sudiacono auh motlaliz ofrenda tlaxcali yhuan bino yhuan yey carneros yhuan yey cabras = se diga misa de cuerpo presente con diácono y subdiácono, y se le ponga se ofrenda de pan y vino, con tres carneros y tres cabras (Tepexi de la Seda, 1621)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 106–107.