mestizo
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zoʊ, mɪ- noun, plural mes·ti·zos, mes·ti·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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| —n , pl -zos, -zoes | |
| a person of mixed parentage, esp the offspring of a Spanish American and an American Indian | |
| [C16: from Spanish, ultimately from Latin miscēre to mix] | |
| mestiza | |
| —fem n | |
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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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Example sentences
Others say a mestizo in a country with a mixed-race majority is using race as a political tool.
Once, on a visit to the family village, she proclaimed to her grandfather that their family was mestizo.
The population also was a reflection of this mixture, referred to as mestizo.
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