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tempo.
(a loanword from Spanish)
Headword:
tempo.
Principal English Translation:
tempo (musical term)(this is a loanword from Latin and Spanish) (see attestations)
Orthographic Variants:
tienpos, dienpo
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
yn cantor torca noca macuiltetl tienpos yhuan chicuey puntus = el ejecutante toca cinco tempos y ocho puntus;
dienpo dienpo = tempus;
Ynipan dienpo = Con respecto al tempus (seventeenth-century Guatemala)
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