Spanish Loanwords

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compadreyotl.

co-parenthood, a fictive kinship within the Catholic church (see Molina)
(at root, a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, 1612)
see Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 228–229.

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compañía.

a company; a military company
(a loanword from Spanish)

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compás.

Orthographic Variants:

gonpas

a measure in music
(a loanword from Spanish, also called a punto)

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componer.

to comprise, to be composed of
(a loanword from Spanish)

Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 440–441.

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comulgar.

to celebrate Holy Communion
(a loanword from Spanish)

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comunidad.

Orthographic Variants:

gomunidad, comonidad, comonidat, comonidar

community; community chest; even seen to mean "in common"
(a loanword from Spanish)

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comunión.

Communion, holy communion; sometimes used to refer to a cofradía
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Concepción.

Orthographic Variants:

consepçio, Coceptio

conception; also a reference to the immaculate conception in the Christian religious belief (see attestations)

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conciencia.

conscience
(a loanword from Spanish)

Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 249.

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concierto.

Orthographic Variants:

gonzierdo

a good order and disposition of things; an agreement
(a loanword from Spanish)

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concilio.

a council
(a loanword from Spanish)

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conde.

a count, a title of nobility
(a loanword from Spanish)

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confesión.

confession (in the church; a loanword from Spanish) (see attestations)

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confesor.

Orthographic Variants:

confessoresme

confessor (see attestation; e.g.central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
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, 162–163.

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confirmación.

Orthographic Variants:

gunfilmacio

confirmation
(a loanword from Spanish)

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confirmar.

to confirm
(a loanword from Spanish)

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confirmaroa.

to confirm (in office)
(a loanword from Spanish)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 215.

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confite.

confection, candy
(a loanword from Spanish)

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confites chihua.

Orthographic Variants:

confites chiua

to make candies
(partly a loanword from Spanish, confites, candies)

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confites chiuhqui.

a candy maker (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish)

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congregación.

Orthographic Variants:

gongrecacion, gongricaçio

a program of concentrated settlements, systematic resettlements of indigenous people organized by Spaniards to concentrate people more
(a loanword from Spanish)

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congregador.

Orthographic Variants:

congrecador

a congregator, a person who would concentrate settlements after population losses due to epidemics
(a loanword from Spanish)

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conquista.

the conquest (Spanish invasion and colonization of Mexico)

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conquistador.

Orthographic Variants:

conguitadores

conqueror
(a loanword from Spanish)

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conquistar.

to conquer
(a loanword from Spanish)

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consagración.

consecration; e.g. of the host and the wine, by the priests (central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
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, 178–179.

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