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convento.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
convento.
Principal English Translation: 

monastery
(a loanword from Spanish)

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
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), 198–199.

Orthographic Variants: 
conuento, conpento
Attestations from sources in English: 

callihtic conuento = inside the monastery (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), 198–199.

1682 omochiuh conpento [tlaxa monJas oquimochihuili = 1681, the convent of nuns was established [in Tlaxcala]. (Anales de Tlaxcala, 1519–1720)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 2, p. 29. Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)