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alcaideti.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
alcaideti.
Principal English Translation: 

to hold the office of alcaide

Attestations from sources in English: 

Oy Sabado a 14 de setie de octu[br]e de 1564 a[ñ]os yquac q’[ui]cuillique yn ivarra Fran[cis] -co Moyse[n] escr[iban]o alcaydetia (Anales de Juan Bautista 2001: 288). =Today, Saturday, on the 14th of October of the year 1564, was when they took the staff of office from the notary Francisco Moysen, who was holding the office of alcaide. [annals (AJB); time range: 1564]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 70.