mameluco

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese mameluco, from Arabic مَمْلُوك (mamlūk, slave). Doublet of mameluke.

Noun[edit]

mameluco (plural mamelucos)

  1. A child born of one white parent and one Brazilian Indian parent. [from 19th c.]
    • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 126:
      The Tupi, who a few years earlier had flourished along these opulent coasts, had already been driven farther and farther back into the forest, and appeared in the records [] only as occasional domestic slaves and already mainly present as mixed blood mamelucos, the first children of multiracial Brazil.

Coordinate terms[edit]

  • (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto

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Adjective[edit]

mameluco (comparative more mameluco, superlative most mameluco)

  1. (dated or historical) Born of a white father and American Indian mother, particularly in South America.

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Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic مَمْلُوك (mamlūk, slave).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

  • Hyphenation: ma‧me‧lu‧co

Noun[edit]

mameluco m (plural mamelucos, feminine mameluca, feminine plural mamelucas)

  1. (historical) mameluke (member of a military regime in mediaeval and early modern Egypt and Syria)
  2. mameluco (person born of a white father and American Indian mother)

Adjective[edit]

mameluco (feminine mameluca, masculine plural mamelucos, feminine plural mamelucas)

  1. mameluco

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mameˈluko/ [ma.meˈlu.ko]
  • Rhymes: -uko
  • Syllabification: ma‧me‧lu‧co

Adjective[edit]

mameluco (feminine mameluca, masculine plural mamelucos, feminine plural mamelucas)

  1. mameluco

Noun[edit]

mameluco m (plural mamelucos)

  1. mameluke
  2. mameluco
  3. (Latin America) overalls; onesie
    Synonyms: mono, braga, buzo, overol

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