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Spanish Loanwords | C / CH

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Letter C/CH: Displaying 41 - 60 of 290

candela.

Orthographic Variants: 
cadela, camdela, catela, catelan, gandela, catella, candella, cantella, cantenla

candle(s) 

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candelaria.

a Catholic feast on February 2 in devotion to the Virgin Mary
(a loanword from Spanish)

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candelero.

candelabra
(a loanword from Spanish)

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candial.

a type of wheat dough
(a loanword from Spanish)

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canónigo.

Orthographic Variants: 
descalços

a canon, as in a canon of the cathedral chapter, a secular priest
(a loanword from Spanish)

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
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), 204–205.

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canonisaroa.

to canonize (see attestations)
(a loanword from Spanish, Nahuatlized)

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cantado.

sung; often referring to a Mass that is sung
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cántico.

a canticle, sacred song (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.

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canto.

Orthographic Variants: 
cando

song (see attestations)

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cantor.

Orthographic Variants: 
catonres, catores, cantore

a singer (usually a member of the choir at church)

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capa quechquemitl.

a cape-like blouse (?)

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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

a cape (garment)

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capellan.

chaplain (see attestations)

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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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capillero.

chaplain
(a loanword from Spanish)

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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