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bachiller.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
bachiller.
Principal English Translation: 

graduate of the first level of university studies

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh yn al[ca]ldes do[n] P[edr]o nima[n] ca[n] tihuetzito in pachiller yuhqui[n] ce[n]calnemovac topilleq’[ue] ynic q’[ui]temoto bachiller in quittaco gou[ernad]or (Anales de Juan Bautista 2001: 318). = The judge don Pedro then went quickly to get the graduate, also the constables went from house to house searching for the graduate who had come to see the governor. [annals (AJB); time range: 1565–1566]
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.

Auh yn iquac xitin in calli in yehuatl bachiller q’[ui]nnamic Ayoticpac in tlatlacatecollo yntlatlaltepoz quiquechpanohua (Anales de Juan Bautista 2001: 144). = When the building collapsed, the graduate encountered in Ayoticpac the devils carrying their hoes on their shoulders. [annals (AJB); time range: 1565–1566]
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.

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