Spanish Loanwords

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capa tzontecomatl.

hood of the cape (?), top of the cape (?) (partially a loanword from Spanish)

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capa.

Orthographic Variants:

capan

cape
(a loanword from Spanish)

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capellanía.

a chaplaincy; financial support for a priest
(a loanword from Spanish)

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capilla.

Orthographic Variants:

capila, cabila, cabillia

chapel
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 94–95.

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capitán.

captain, leader of an armed group; in early sixteenth-century contexts, and with no referents, the term can refer to Hernando Cortés; leaders of painting groups were also capitanes

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capítulo.

a chapter; a provincial chapter
(a loanword from Spanish)

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capo.

a cape, cloak

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capote.

Orthographic Variants:

capoti, cabute

a cape with sleeves, or one that flies around less than a regular cape; a coat

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capricornio.

Capricorn, a zodiac sign
(a loanword from Spanish/Latin)

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 128–129.

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carabina.

a weapon; a short-barrelled musket?
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cárcel.

jail (a loanword from Spanish)

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cardas.

Orthographic Variants:

calax

carders (to prepare wool or cotton for for spinning) (see attestations)

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carga.

a load; also, a measure of maize seed, which also translates into a certain amount of land (e.g. a field into which can be planted one carga of maize)

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cargo.

charge
(a loanword from Spanish)

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 44.

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Carlos V.

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1519–1556), and Charles I, king of Spain (1516–1556)

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Carmelitas.

Carmelites; a Roman Catholic religious order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel founded in the 12th c.
(a loanword from Spanish)

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carnero.

Orthographic Variants:

carnello, galnero

ram, sheep (a loanword from Spanish)

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carnestolendas.

Orthographic Variants:

carnestoretas

Shrovetide (a Catholic religious observation; a loanword from Spanish)

(ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 142–143.

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