Spanish Loanwords | C / CH

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Letter C/CH: Displaying 161 - 180 of 285

ciruelas cuahuitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
ciruelas quahuitl

cherry tree (partly a loanword from Spanish, ciruelas, cherries)

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citación.

citation
(a loanword from Spanish)

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ciudad.

Orthographic Variants: 
siudad, ciodad, çiudad, çiodad, cioda, zibdad, cybdad, a la ciudad, alaçiudad, ala ciudad

city, a the city, in the city

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ciudadtlaca.

Orthographic Variants: 
siudatlaca

secondary town or city officials; people of the city
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Clara.

a Spanish given name for a female; a saint's name
(a loanword from Spanish)

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clarín.

Orthographic Variants: 
clari

a bugle or a trumpet
(a loanword from Spanish)

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claustro.

Orthographic Variants: 
claostro

the cloisters
(a loanword from Spanish)

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clavo.

nail
(a loanword from Spanish)

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clérigo.

clergyman
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cobrador.

a collector; e.g. a tributes collector
(Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 516–517.

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cobraroa.

to collect
(a loan verb from Spanish, cobrar)

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 34.

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coche.

a coach, horse-drawn vehicle (see attestations)

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cochinilla.

cochineal, a red textile dye of indigenous origin obtained by crushing insects which feed on the nopal cactus
(a loanword from Spanish)

The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.

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cochino.

Orthographic Variants: 
cochinito

pig

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cocina.

kitchen
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cocinero.

cook, chef
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cocodrilo.

Orthographic Variants: 
cocodrillo

crododile

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codicilio.

Orthographic Variants: 
codicilio

codicil, will, testament
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cofrade.

Orthographic Variants: 
cofrades

member of a lay brotherhood, member of a cofradia
(a loanword from Spanish)

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cofradía.

Orthographic Variants: 
cobratia, cofrandi, confraria, confradia

lay brotherhood, confraternity (see attestations)

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