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Mercedario.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Mercedario.
Principal English Translation: 

a Mercedarian, a member of the religious order
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
mersenario, mercenadio
Attestations from sources in English: 

in cenca mahuiztililoni teopixque in motenehua mercenadios, yn itlaçopilhuantzitzinhuan in tohueycihuatlahtocatecuiyo totlaçomahuiznantzin Sancta maria las mercedes de la redẽption de los cautiuos, = the very reverend friars called Mercedarians, the precious children of our great queenly lady, our precious revered mother Santa María de las Mercedes y de la Redención de los Cautivos. (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), 202–203.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn totatzintzin coratin Antonio Gosales Juan Merino temachtiani Diego Matines çe mersenario fray Manohuel yhuan ocçequi totatzin çequitin oquicocoque yn tlatlaca monepantepachoque = nuestros padres curas, Antonio González, Juan Merino, el predicador Diego Martínez, un mercedario fray Manuel y otros padres nuestros. Algunos fueron lastimados por la gente, que se apedreó entre sí. (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 482–483.