criollo

See also: Criollo

English

Noun

criollo (plural criollos)

1. Alternative form of Criollo

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese crioulo (“white person born in the colonies; slave born in the house of his master; black person born in the colonies”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾjoʝo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈkɾjoʝo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /ˈkɾjoʎo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkɾjoʃo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkɾjoʒo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʒo]

Adjective

criollo (feminine criolla, masculine plural criollos, feminine plural criollas)

1. creole
2. Related from people descended from European parents living in the Americas

Noun

criollo m (plural criollos)

1. creole
2. A person descended from European parents living in the Americas
3. (Philippines, historical, obsolete) Spaniard born and/or raised in Spanish America who immigrated or visited the Spanish Colonial Philippines or Spanish East Indies in general.

   Synonym: americano

   Coordinate terms: peninsular, insular, filipino, filipina

Derived terms

• ají criollo
• criollismo
• criollito
• criollo haitiano
• pabellón criollo
• pato criollo
• terapia criolla

 

Further reading

• “criollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• criollo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es