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mestizo

noun
/mɛsˈtiː.zoʊ/UK/mɛsˈtiː.zo/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from mixtus
  2. derived from mixtīcius
  3. borrowed from mestizo

Definitions

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

  2. A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Austronesian Filipino and Spanish or…

    A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Austronesian Filipino and Spanish or Chinese ancestry, such as that of the Spanish mestizos and Chinese mestizos from the Spanish Colonial Era of the Philippines.

The neighborhood

Derived

Chinese mestizo, Mestizo de Español, Mestizo de Sangley, mestizo wool, Spanish mestizo

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA