mestizo

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

• IPA^(key): /mɛsˈtiː.zoʊ/, /mɛˈstiː.zoʊ/

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mestizo (plural mestizos or mestizoes)

1. A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
2. (Philippines, historical) 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.

• mestizo wool

• Metis, metis
• mulatto
• mestiz, mestize
• mustee, mustees

Derived from Spanish mestizo, from Latin mixticius, from mixtus (“mixed”).

• IPA^(key): [mesˈtizo]
• Rhymes: -izo
• Hyphenation: mes‧ti‧zo

mestizo (accusative singular mestizon, plural mestizoj, accusative plural mestizojn)

1. mestizo (a person of mixed ancestry)

• mulato (“mulatto”)

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /mesˈtiθo/ [mesˈt̪i.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /mesˈtiso/ [mesˈt̪i.so]

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -iθo
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: mes‧ti‧zo

Inherited from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Cognate to Portuguese mestiço, French métis.

mestizo (feminine mestiza, masculine plural mestizos, feminine plural mestizas)

1. of mixed, Spanish and Native American heritage
2. (by extension) of mixed indigenous (aboriginal) and colonial (European) descent

mestizo m (plural mestizos, feminine mestiza, feminine plural mestizas)

1. a person of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage

   Synonyms: ladino, cholo, (derogatory) panchito, (derogatory) sudaca

2. a person whose ethnic heritage is of both aboriginal and colonial descent
3. (Philippines, historical) a person of mixed Austronesian Filipino and non-austronesian foreign ancestry, typically born and raised in the Philippines, especially either that of the Mestizo de Español (Spanish mestizo) and Mestizo de Sangley (Chinese mestizo)

• → German: Mestize
• → Tagalog: mestiso

mestizo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mestizar

• “mestizo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014