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X.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
X.
Principal English Translation: 

a Roman numeral for the number 10 (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
X
Attestations from sources in English: 

"1 calli 1545 ... yn cemilhuitl motocaya y çanoquic peuhqui x xv xx xxx xl ynī cemilhuitl (f. 5)" = "1 House (year) 1545 ... All day long they were buried. Also it began that ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty, forty in one day (were buried)"
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 4, p. 41, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

auh yn ijolaryo ynic huiyac xv matl auh ynic patlahuac x matl = and its houselot is 15 matl long and 10 matl wide (Culhuacan, 1580)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 15–16.

themes: 
Numbers, Math
See also: 
XV.
XX.
XXX.
XXXV.
XXIX.