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noun, plural -zos, -zoes.
a person of racially mixed ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed American Indian and European, usually Spanish or Portuguese, ancestry, or, in the Philippines, of mixed native and foreign ancestry.
Origin:
1580–90; < Spanish, noun use of adj. mestizo < Vulgar Latin *mixtīcius mixed
1580–90; < Spanish, noun use of adj. mestizo < Vulgar Latin *mixtīcius mixed
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Mestizo
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| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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- Mestizo seems the only one of the four that is really a socioethnological term in general use.
- Others say a mestizo in a country with a mixed-race majority is using race as a political tool.
- It's a fascinating blend of pre-Columbian and colonial history and contemporary mestizo culture.
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Word Origin & History
mestizo
c.1588, from Sp. mestizo "of mixed European and Amerindian parentage," from L.L. mixticius "mixed, mongrel," from L. mixtus "mixed," pp. of miscere "to mix, mingle" (see mix). Fem. form mestiza is attested from c.1582.
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