mestizo

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Spanish mestizo, from Late Latin mixticius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of metis, which came from French.

NounEdit

mestizo (plural mestizos or mestizoes)

1. A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.

See alsoEdit

• Metis, metis

TranslationsEdit

• Catalan: mestís
• German: Mestize (de) m, Mestizin f
• Portuguese: caboclo (pt)

• Swedish: mestis (sv) c
• Turkish: melez (tr), kırma (tr)

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Late Latin mixticĭus, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Cognate to Portuguese mestiço, French métis.

PronunciationEdit

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /mesˈtiθo/, [mesˈt̪iθo]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /mesˈtiso/, [mesˈt̪iso]
• Rhymes: -iso

AdjectiveEdit

mestizo (feminine singular mestiza, masculine plural mestizos, feminine plural mestizas)

1. Of mixed, Spanish and Native American heritage
2. also of mixed indigenous (aboriginal) and colonial (European) descent

NounEdit

mestizo m (plural mestizos, feminine mestiza)

1. A person of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage
2. A person whose ethnic heritage is of both aboriginal and colonial descent

SynonymsEdit

• (person of mixed Caucasoid and Amerindian descent who lives in the Americas): ladino, cholo

• (person of mixed Caucasoid and Amerindian descent who lives in Spain): Panchito and Sudaca - used in a derogatory and discriminatory way instead of Latino.

Related termsEdit

• mezclar
• mecer
• mesto
• mestura
• mixto