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Spanish Loanwords

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China.

Orthographic Variants: 
a la China, alachina

China, or Asia more generally, including the Philippines
(a loanword from Spanish)

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chino.

a person of mixed ethnic heritage; or a Chinese person
(a loanword from Spanish)

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chirimía.

Orthographic Variants: 
cheremia

a loud single-reed musical instrument
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 248.

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chivo.

a small goat (kid); also seen as chivato
(a loanword from Spanish)

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chocolatera.

a chocolate maker/seller (female)
(a Nahuatl word with a Hispanized ending)

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choquiztlatlauhtilia in dios.

to pray to God with tears and wailing (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, dios, God)

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chrismatica nicmacpalalahua in sacerdote.

Orthographic Variants: 
chrismatica nicmacpalalaua yn sacerdote

for a bishop to anoint a priest
(includes loanwords from Spanish)

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chrismayotia.

to perform the rite of confirmation for someone
(a Nahuatlized loanword from Spanish)

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christianoyotl.

Christianity
(a Nahuatlized loanword from Spanish)

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cidra cuahuitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
cidra quauitl, cidra quahuitl

a citron tree (includes a loanword from Spanish)

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cidra cuauhtla.

Orthographic Variants: 
cidra quauhtla.

an orchard or plantation of citron trees (includes a loanword from Spanish)

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cielo.

Orthographic Variants: 
sielu

the sky; heaven
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cien.

one hundred
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cihua cahuallo pixqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
ciua cauallo pixqui, cihua caballo pixqui

one who keeps the mares (?), or female horses (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, caballo, horse)

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cihua cahuallo.

Orthographic Variants: 
ciua cauallo, cihua caballo

a mare
(partly a Spanish loanword, caballo, horse)

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cihuapadre.

a nun
(partly a loanword from Spanish, padre, father, priest)

(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), 144–145.

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cimarrón.

Orthographic Variants: 
cimalon, cimalonti, cimalõti

an enslaved person who has run away (see attestations)

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cimiento.

Orthographic Variants: 
simiento, çimento

foundation (see attestations)

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cincel.

chisel (see attestations)

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circuncisión.

Orthographic Variants: 
çircuçiçion

circumcision; also, the religious observation
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cirio.

Orthographic Variants: 
cilyo, çirio, çilius

candlewood
(a loanword from Spanish)

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ciruelas cuahuitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
ciruelas quahuitl

cherry tree (partly a loanword from Spanish, ciruelas, cherries)

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citación.

citation
(a loanword from Spanish)

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ciudad.

Orthographic Variants: 
siudad, ciodad, çiudad, çiodad, cioda, zibdad, cybdad, a la ciudad, alaçiudad, ala ciudad

city, a the city, in the city

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ciudadtlaca.

Orthographic Variants: 
siudatlaca

secondary town or city officials; people of the city
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Clara.

a Spanish given name for a female; a saint's name
(a loanword from Spanish)

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clarín.

Orthographic Variants: 
clari

a bugle or a trumpet
(a loanword from Spanish)

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claustro.

Orthographic Variants: 
claostro

the cloisters
(a loanword from Spanish)

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clavo.

nail
(a loanword from Spanish)

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clérigo.

clergyman, secular priest

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