mestizo

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

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 native Filipino and Spanish or Chinese ancestry, such as that of the Spanish mestizos and Chinese mestizos from the Spanish Colonial Era of the Philippines.

Translations

a person of mixed ancestry

• Armenian: մետիս (hy) (metis)
• Bulgarian: метис m (metis)
• Catalan: mestís
• Esperanto: mestizo
• French: métis (fr) m, métisse (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Mestize (de) m, Mestizin (de) f
• Portuguese: caboclo (pt) m, cabocla f
• Spanish: mestizo (es) m, mestiza (es) f
• Swedish: mestis (sv) c
• Turkish: melez (tr), kırma (tr)

See also

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

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Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. mestizo (a person of mixed ancestry)

See also

• mulato (“mulatto”)

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iso

Adjective

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

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

Noun

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 native Filipino and non-native 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).

Derived terms

• mestizaje

Descendants

• → Tagalog: mestiso

Related terms

• mezclar
• mecer
• mesto
• mestura
• mixto

Verb

mestizo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mestizar

Further reading

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