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Babiloniatlacatl.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Babiloniatlacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

person of Babylon

Attestations from sources in English: 

In jpan jn parrapho: vncan moteneoa, in tulteca, in achto tlacapixoco, in njcan tlalli ipan: in iuhqujma babylonja tlaca, in mjmatinj in tlamatinjme, in jxtlamatque. = “IN This paragraph, here, the Tolteca are mentioned, the first who settled here in the land; who [were] like the inhabitants of Babylon, wise, learned, experienced”(Sahagún 1950–82, X: 165). [cultural encyclopedia (FC 10); time range: 1578–1580]
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), 95.