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Letter S: Displaying 41 - 60 of 69

sentencia.

Orthographic Variants: 
sentensia

a sentence, a judgment
(a loanword from Spanish)

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septiembre.

Orthographic Variants: 
setiempre, setienpre, septimpre

September
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sepulcro.

Orthographic Variants: 
çebulcoro, seporcoro

sepulchre, sepulcher, grave, tomb; a small chest where the sacred host is preserved in Catholic churches
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sepultura.

Orthographic Variants: 
sepoltora, seportora, ceportura

a burial, a grave (see attestations)

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sermón.

a sermon
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sermonario.

sermon(s) (see attestations)
(a loanword from Spanish)

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Serna.

a Spanish surname; e.g. Dr. don Juan Pérez de la Serna, archibishop of Mexico; he was a secular priest originally from Zamora in Spain

(central Mexico, 1613)
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), 260–261.

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servicio.

service, tribute labor
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sierra.

a saw

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silla.

Orthographic Variants: 
xilla, cilla, xila, xile

a chair, a seat; or, a saddle (see attestations)

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sin.

without
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sitio.

a site, lot, allotment; also, for example, sitio de estancia (a certain size of a stockraising property
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sobrepelliz.

Orthographic Variants: 
descalços

a surplice
(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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sobrino. / sobrina.

Orthographic Variants: 
subrino, çobrino, suprina

nephew, niece
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sol.

a musical note

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solar.

Orthographic Variants: 
xolal, xollal, jular, xolar, jolar, jolal, sullar, isolaryo, ijolaryo, xolal tlalli, solarto, zulal, tzolal, çolar, sularito

a house lot (a loanword from Spanish); see also our entries for xolal

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soldado.

Orthographic Variants: 
suldadoztin, suldadostin, jordadosme, sordado, Joldadostin, soldadostin, surdadosme, surdatosme

soldier (see attestations)

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soledad.

solitude; or a reference to Mary of Solitude, the Virgin Mary
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sombrero.

Orthographic Variants: 
sonbrero, somblero

a large hat
(a loanword from Spanish)

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sotanilla.

a small cassock
(a loanword from Spanish)

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