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alférez.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
alférez.
Principal English Translation: 

ensign

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn alferes Omochiuh don francisco fernādes de salasar yn gobernador Don blas de galisia sā franco alcalde gaspar miguel regidor miguel de los s.tos. =“Don Francisco Fernández de Salazar was made ensign. The governor was don Blas de Galicia. The San Francisco alcalde was Gaspar Miguel, and the regidor was Miguel de los Santos” (Townsend ed. 2010: 108). [annals (AP, ZM); time range: ca. 1666–1668]
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), 74.

oquiçihuan tlalique yn ipa molatin yn quipixtaque capitan sargetor alferis y nican chaneque caxtilteca (Zapata y Mendoza 1995: 404). They put them on mules in the womanly manner, the captain, the sergeant and the ensign who were Spanish citizens from here, went along guarding them. [annals (AP, ZM); time range: ca. 1666–1668]
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), 74.