Spanish Loanwords | P

a surname; held, for instance, by the mestizo Juan Bautista Pomar of Tetzcoco; also seen in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, f. 753r. (SW)

pontifical
(a loanword from Spanish)

prior, abbreviated
(a loanword from Spanish)

archways, arcaded passageways, often around the main square of towns
(a loanword from Spanish)

usher, doorman, guard
(a loanword from Spanish)

possession (usually, legal possession of land); often, the act of granting or recognizing possession, which could involve various actions that were demonstrative of that situation and their resulting documents

a wicket, small door, gate, shutter
(a loanword from Spanish)

a colt; a young horse; or a device made of wood to detain horses when they are being doctored
(a loanword from Spanish)

another name for the Dominican friars
(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.