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mes·ti·zo 
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Audio Help [me-stee-zoh, mi-] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural -zos, -zoes.
| a person of racially mixed ancestry, esp., 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; < Sp, n. use of adj. mestizo < VL *mixtīcius mixed]
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Mestizos
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| mes·ti·zo
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n. pl. mes·ti·zos or mes·ti·zoes A person of mixed racial ancestry, especially of mixed European and Native American ancestry. [Spanish, mixed, mestizo, from Old Spanish, mixed, from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscēre, to mix; see meik- in Indo-European roots.] |
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