Sagittarius, 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.
sagittarius, a sign of the zodiac; actually, originally a loanword from Latin, although possibly similar in siixteenth-century Spanish; see Lori Boornazian Diel, The Codex Mexicanus: A Guide to Life in Late-Sixteenth-Century New Spain (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018), 173.
a place name and a surname; e.g. doctor Juan de Salamanca, vicar general for the Spaniards and a choirmaster in Mexico City, a criollo, who passed away in 1615
(central Mexico, 1615) 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), 262–263, 302–303.
a Spanish surname taken by indigenous people; e.g. don Hernando de Salazar was the indigenous municipal governor in 1563 in Tlaxcala; the title "don" is inconsistent until this point, when he became governor 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), 166–167.
a name; Saint James, formerly known as the Moor Killer (in the reconquest of Iberia from the Moors, then he became Santiago Mataindios ("Indian Killer") and the patron saint of Spaniards during the invasion and colonization of the Americas (SW)
St. Dominic; also the name of an island in the Caribbean
(central Mexico, 1612) 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), 232–233.
serge, a coarse type of cotton used for clothing; gray Franciscan habits were made from this; sometimes called sayal fransiscano Josephine Paterek, Encyclopedia of American Indian Costume, (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996), 264.