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mestizo
[ me-stee-zoh, mi- ]
noun
, plural mes·ti·zos, mes·ti·zoes.
- a person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed Indigenous and European descent or, in the Philippines, of mixed Indigenous and foreign descent. mestiza ( def ).
mestizo
/ mɛˈstiːzə; mɛˈstiːzəʊ; mɪ- /
noun
- a person of mixed parentage, esp the offspring of a Spanish American and an American Indian
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Derived Forms
- mestiza, noun:feminine
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mestizo1
First recorded in 1580–90; from Spanish, noun use of adjective mestizo, from Vulgar Latin mixtīcius (unrecorded) “mixed”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mestizo1
C16: from Spanish, ultimately from Latin miscēre to mix
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Example Sentences
An Indian woman with a mestizo baby in her arms stood in the doorway when the three men reached the hut.
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The child, which was evidently dying of anæmia, was a mestizo.
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One was a Spanish mestizo, 66 were Chinese half-castes and 524 were indians.
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We may say, then, that in Palenque every Maya baby below ten months of age was sacral spotted, and that no Mestizo baby was.
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The Mestizo arose to his feet, and addressed himself, not to the emissaries of the Republic, but to his own supporters.
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