matins; morning prayers in the Catholic church; office (with lauds) constituting the first of the canonical hours, before daybreak
(a loanword from Spanish)
(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, 180–181 and see note 26.
Mary, a woman's name, and in the Catholic religion the reference is to the mother of Jesus Christ; many indigenous women were given this name upon baptism
the Marquesado; the tributes domain under the control of the Marqués del Valle (partly a loanword, and, originally, the implication was the estate of Hernando Cortés, who was named the Marqués in the late 1520s) (see Molina)
marquise; those who bore this title included Hernando Cortés and his son Martín Cortés; the father is the most prevalent of those simply called the "marqués" or the "capitán;" marqués was also a title borne by others, such as the viceroy, don Gastón de Peralta, Marqués de Falces, Conde de San Estéban
maestrescuela, a school master ; e.g. Dr. Don Melchor Aríndez de Oñate of Mexico City (a loanword from Spanish) (central Mexico, 1613) 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), 264–265.