Californio
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See also: californio and califórnio
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Historic and regional Spanish californio (“Californian”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Californio (plural Californios)
- (historical) A Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic Californian living in California before the Mexican-American War.
- 2015, Blake Allmendinger, editor, A History of California Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 47:
- Jackson drew her setting and story in part from interviews with Antonio Coronel, a prominent Californio politician and rancher who contributed his own testimonial to Bancroft's research project.
Further reading[edit]
- Californios on Wikipedia.Wikipedia