mameluco
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese mameluco, from Arabic مَمْلُوك (mamlūk, “slave”). Doublet of mameluke.
Noun edit
mameluco (plural mamelucos)
- A child born of one white parent and one Brazilian Indian parent. [from 19th c.]
- 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 126:
- The Tupi, who a few years earlier had flourished along these opulent coasts, had already been driven farther and farther back into the forest, and appeared in the records […] only as occasional domestic slaves and already mainly present as mixed blood mamelucos, the first children of multiracial Brazil.
Coordinate terms edit
- (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto
Translations edit
Adjective edit
mameluco (comparative more mameluco, superlative most mameluco)
- (dated or historical) Born of a white father and American Indian mother, particularly in South America.
Translations edit
References edit
- “mameluco”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic مَمْلُوك (mamlūk, “slave”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ma‧me‧lu‧co
Noun edit
mameluco m (plural mamelucos, feminine mameluca, feminine plural mamelucas)
- (historical) mameluke (member of a military regime in mediaeval and early modern Egypt and Syria)
- mameluco (person born of a white father and American Indian mother)
Adjective edit
mameluco (feminine mameluca, masculine plural mamelucos, feminine plural mamelucas)
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
mameluco (feminine mameluca, masculine plural mamelucos, feminine plural mamelucas)
Noun edit
mameluco m (plural mamelucos)
Further reading edit
- “mameluco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014