cuarterón
See also: cuarteron
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom cuarto (“one-fourth”) + -ón (-oon: forming related nouns), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Cognate with Portuguese quarta.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcuarterón m (plural cuarterones, feminine cuarterona, feminine plural cuarteronas)
- (historical) cuarteron, Spanish quarter-pound (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 115 g)
- Synonym: panilla
- (chiefly historical) quadroon (a person who is three-quarters white, having one Native American or black grandparent)
- Synonym: castizo
Coordinate terms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- → English: quadroon
Further reading
edit- “cuarterón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ón
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/on
- Rhymes:Spanish/on/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish terms with historical senses
- es:Units of measure
- es:Racism
- es:Four