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Spanish Loanwords | P

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Letter P: Displaying 81 - 100 of 137

polvo.

powder, dust; gunpowder
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pólvora.

Orthographic Variants: 
polpra

gunpowder
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Pomar.

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

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poniente.

west, the West
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pontifical.

pontifical
(a loanword from Spanish)

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pór.

prior, abbreviated
(a loanword from Spanish)

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por.

for, by, through
(a loanword from Spanish)

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porra.

a long wooden weapon
(a loanword from Spanish)

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portales.

Orthographic Variants: 
bortales, bortalez, purtales

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

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portería.

a porter's lodge
(a loanword from Spanish)

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portero.

usher, doorman, guard
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Portugués.

Orthographic Variants: 
portoquez, portugues

Portuguese; a Portuguese person
(a loanword from Spanish)

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posesión.

Orthographic Variants: 
buseçio, ponsension, pozezion, pozesiun, Puzesiun

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

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postema.

an abscess
(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), 198–199.

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postigo.

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

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postrero.

the last one; often used in association with the last day of the month
(a loanword from Spanish)

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potro.

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

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pozo.

Orthographic Variants: 
poço, poçoco

a well, or a pit

(central Mexico, 1615)
see 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), 304–305.

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Predicadores.

Orthographic Variants: 
descalços

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.

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pregón.

Orthographic Variants: 
pregun, prigo, brigo

a public announcement or proclamation, made by a crier (see attestations)

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