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Spanish Loanwords | Q

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Letter Q: Displaying 1 - 7 of 7

quatollotepore.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuatollotepore

the four "ember days," a Christian religious practice involving fasting, abstinence, and prayer

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quejar.

to complain, to make a legal complaint

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querella.

quarrel
(a loanword from Spanish)

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queso.

cheese, a round of cheese

See, for example, rounds of cheese that appear on plates 47 and 55 of the Codex Sierra, https://bidilaf.buap.mx/objeto.xql?id=48281&busqueda=Texupan&action=search

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quince.

Orthographic Variants: 
quinse

fifteen
(a loanword from Spanish) (see attestations)

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quinientos.

Orthographic Variants: 
quinietus

five hundred, 500
(a loanword from Spanish)

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quixtiano.

a Nahuatl form of cristiano, usually meaning not a Christian as such but a person of European extraction, a Spaniard

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), 232.

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