Spanish Loanwords | C / CH

Letter C/CH: Displaying 141 - 160 of 285

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

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.

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

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

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

Orthographic Variants: 
chrismatica nicmacpalalaua yn sacerdote

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

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

Christianity
(a Nahuatlized loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
cidra quauitl, cidra quahuitl

a citron tree (includes a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
cidra quauhtla.

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

Orthographic Variants: 
sielu

the sky; heaven
(a loanword from Spanish)

one hundred
(a loanword from Spanish)

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)

Orthographic Variants: 
ciua cauallo, cihua caballo

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

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
cimalon, cimalonti, cimalõti

an enslaved person who has run away (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
simiento, çimento

foundation
(a loanword from Spanish)

chisel (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
çircuçiçion

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

Orthographic Variants: 
cilyo, çirio, çilius

candlewood
(a loanword from Spanish)