mulatto

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese and/or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin mūlus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /muˈlɑtoʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /m(j)ʊˈlætəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ, -ætəʊ

Noun

mulatto (plural mulattoes or mulattos)

1. (historical, now sometimes derogatory) A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.

   Synonyms: mestizo, metis

Coordinate terms

mixed black and white:

• cabre, cob (cobb), griffe, Sambo (samboe), terceroon (3/4 black)
• marabou (5/8 black)
• costee, quadroon (1/4 black)
• mustee (mestee) / octoroon (octaroon) (1/8 black)
• fustee, hexadecaroon, musteefino (mustifino, mustiphini) (1/16 black)
• quintroon (quintoon) (1/16 or 1/32 black)
• dustee (1/32 black)

mixed white and Native

• castizo (1/4 Native)
• mameluco (1/2 Native)
• mestizo (any mix, especially 1/2 Native)
• sacatra

Related terms

• mulatta, mulattress (female)

Translations

person of mixed black and white descent

• Arabic: خِلَاسِيّ m (ḵilāsiyy)
• Bulgarian: мулат (bg) m (mulat)
• Catalan: mulat (ca) m, mulato (ca) m, mulata (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑白混血兒／黑白混血儿 (hēibái hùnxiěr)

• Czech: mulat (cs) m, mulatka (cs) f
• Danish: mulat c
• Dutch: mulat (nl) m, mulattin (nl) f, halfbloed (nl) m or f, dubbelbloed (nl) m or f
• Finnish: mulatti (fi)
• French: mulâtre (fr) m or f, mulâtresse (fr) f (female), café au lait (fr) (colloquial, derogative)
• German: Mulatte (de) m, Mulattin (de) f
• Greek: μιγάς (el) m (migás)
• Hebrew: בן–תערובות (ben-ta'a'rovot)
• Hungarian: mulatt (hu)
• Italian: mulatto (it) m, mulatta (it) f
• Japanese: ムラート (murāto)
• Macedonian: мулат m (mulat)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mulatt (no) m

  Nynorsk: mulatt m

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: Mulat (pl) m, Mulatka f
• Portuguese: mulato (pt) m, mulata (pt) f
• Romanian: mulatru (ro) m, mulatră (ro) f
• Russian: мула́т (ru) m (mulát), мула́тка (ru) f (mulátka)
• Slovene: mulat (sl)
• Spanish: mulato m, mulata f
• Swedish: mulatt (sv) c
• Tagalog: mulato
• Ukrainian: мула́т m (mulát), мула́тка f (mulátka)
• Volapük: mulat (vo)

See also

• brown
• browning
• half-breed
• half blood
• maroon
• mixed-race
• Mischling
• red nigger

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muˈlat.to/
• Rhymes: -atto
• Hyphenation: mu‧làt‧to

Adjective

mulatto (feminine mulatta, masculine plural mulatti, feminine plural mulatte)

1. (relational) mulatto

Noun

mulatto m (plural mulatti, feminine mulatta)

1. mulatto

Anagrams

• multato