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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)
Fernando Horcasitas y Alfred Lemmon, "El Tratado de Santa Eulalia: un manuscrito musical náhuatl," Tlalocan 12 (1997), 108–109, 110–111.

themes: 
Music, Song, Dance