criollo
See also: Criollo
English edit
Noun edit
criollo (plural criollos)
- Alternative form of Criollo
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese crioulo (“white person born in the colonies; slave born in the house of his master; black person born in the colonies”).
Pronunciation edit
- Syllabification: crio‧llo
Adjective edit
criollo (feminine criolla, masculine plural criollos, feminine plural criollas)
- creole
- Related from people descended from European parents living in the Americas
Noun edit
criollo m (plural criollos)
- creole
- a person descended from European parents living in the Americas
- (Philippines, historical, obsolete) Spaniard born and/or raised in Spanish America who immigrated or visited the Spanish Colonial Philippines or Spanish East Indies in general
- Synonym: americano
- Coordinate terms: peninsular, insular, filipino, filipina
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “criollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- criollo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es