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Honduras.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Honduras.
Principal English Translation: 

a country in Central America (a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
huduras
Attestations from sources in English: 

Don Andres, motelchiuh ic matlactli omome tlatocat in tenochtitlan exiujtl iepan espaňoles noujian iauqujçato in cuextlan, huduras, auh in iehoatl nonum de guzman, qujuicac in vej culhoacan vmpa mjqujto. = Don Andrés Motelchiuh was twelfth, and he ruled Tenochtitlan three years in the time of the Spaniards, who went forth everywhere to conquests -- to Cuextlan, to Honduras. And Nuño de Guzmán took him [in conquest] to Colhuacan, where he met his death. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 4.