(a loanword from Spanish)
a canon, as in a canon of the cathedral chapter, a secular priest
(a loanword from Spanish)
(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
in huel tlacpac moyetzticate. in huel teachcauhtzitzinhuan. clerigos. in cabildo tlaca. motenehua Canonigos cathedrales. yn itlaçomahuizpilhuantzitzinhuan totlaçomahuiztatzin Señor S. Pedro. Principe, quihtoznequi tlahtocapiltachcauhtzin yn ipan S.ta yglesia, = the most highly placed, very senior secular priests, the people of the cathedral chapter, called canons of the cathedral, precious revered children of our precious revered father San Pedro the Prince, that is to say, the senior royal noble in the holy Church. (central Mexico, 1612)