castizo
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish castizo.
Noun edit
castizo (plural castizos)
- (historical, under the caste system of colonial Latin America) The offspring of a European and a mestizo; someone of three quarters European and one quarter Amerindian ancestry.
Coordinate terms edit
- (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From casta (“progeny; race”) + -izo.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
castizo m (plural castizos)
Adjective edit
castizo (feminine castiza, masculine plural castizos, feminine plural castizas)
- fit for procreation
- genuine, characteristic; pure-bred, unmixed
- Synonym: enxebre
- 1777, anonymous author, Romance da urca de Santo Antón[1]:
- como tí ben conoces que són Jallejo castizo ó falarche en Castillano sería un gran desatino
- as you know, I'm a genuine Galician, and to talk to you in Castilian would be a great blunder
References edit
- “castizo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “castizo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “castizo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “casta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Most likely derived from casta + -izo. Less likely from a Vulgar Latin *casticeus, from Latin castus (“pure”). Cf. also Spanish casto.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /kasˈtiθo/ [kasˈt̪i.θo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /kasˈtiso/ [kasˈt̪i.so]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -iθo
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -iso
- Syllabification: cas‧ti‧zo
Adjective edit
castizo (feminine castiza, masculine plural castizos, feminine plural castizas)
- pure-bred
- pure, original, fully-fledged
- (linguistics) pure
- (historical) having 3/4 white and 1/4 American Indian ancestry
- Synonym: cuarterón
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “castizo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014