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Spanish Loanwords | P

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Letter P: Displaying 61 - 80 of 137

pila.

font, baptismal font; or, a public water fountain, such as might be found in a market (pila del mercado)

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pilar.

Orthographic Variants: 
pilal

a pillar; or, a large basin for a fountain
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pintado. / pintada.

painted
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pintor.

painter
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pintura.

Orthographic Variants: 
bintula, bintura, pintora, pitoran. pitora

a painting; or, a map, a pictorial manuscript, often authored by an indigenous artist (a loanword from Spanish)

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pipa.

a pipe, a barrel, a cask (see attestations)

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pirul.

a tree introduced from abroad; has a "white fragrant resin,' and was a competitor of the black pepper tree

Miriam Melton-Villanueva, The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016), 110.

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Piscis.

Pisces, the sign of the zodiac [a loan from Latin, to Spanish, to Nahuatl]

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pistola.

a pistol
(a loanword from Spanish)

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plata.

silver
(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), 202–203.

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plátano.

Orthographic Variants: 
polatanox, pladanos

banana, plantain
(a loanword from Spanish)

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platero.

a person who works with silver
(a loanword from Spanish)

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plato.

Orthographic Variants: 
blato, pollato

a plate or dish

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pleito.

Orthographic Variants: 
pleyto, pleytome, preyto, preytos, bleyto, breito

lawsuit; controversy; conflicts, arguments

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 230.

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pluscuamperfecto.

Orthographic Variants: 
plusquanynperfecto, pluscuaperfecto, prucuaynperfecto

pluperfect (a preterit form and a term used in music)
(a loanword from Latin and Spanish)

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po.

an abbreviation for the name Pedro (Pablo is usually spelled out)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pochinqui sedatilmatli.

Orthographic Variants: 
puchinqui sedatilmatli

velvet (partly a loanword from Spanish, seda, silk) (see Molina)

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poder.

power of attorney
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pollero.

a poulterer, one who deals in chickens and other poultry
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pollo.

Orthographic Variants: 
pullo, polo, polostin

chicken(s) (a loanword from Spanish)

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