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elementos.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
elementos.
Principal English Translation: 

elements, "four separate things" that are related to the clouds, the sun, and the rain, and represent "the very beginning"
(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), 206–207.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Elementos no quicoco quitlaocolti yn imiquiliztzin teoyotica tlahtohuani Don fr. Garcia Guerra = elements, were hurt and moved to pity by the death of the spiritual leader don fray García Guerra (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), 206–207.