mestizo

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish, based on Latin mixtus.

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. Cognate to Portuguese mestiço, French métis.

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -iso

AdjectiveEdit

mestizo m ‎(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 discrimitory way instead of Latino.