mulatto

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin mūlus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muˈlɑtoʊ/
• IPA^(key): /m(j)ʊˈlætəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ, -ætəʊ

Noun

mulatto (plural mulattoes or mulattos)

1. (dated, often derogatory) A person of mixed black and white descent.

   Synonyms: mestizo, metis

2. (census) Anyone born to two half black and half white parents.
3. (census) Anyone who is three quarters black and one quarter white or one quarter black and three quarters white.

Related terms

• mulatta, mulattress (female)

Translations

person of mixed black and white descent

• Bulgarian: мулат (bg) m (mulat)
• Catalan: mulat (ca) m, mulato (ca) m, mulata (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑白混血兒／黑白混血儿, 黑白混血儿 (hēibái hùnxiěr)

• Czech: mulat (cs) m
• Danish: mulat c
• Dutch: mulat (nl) m, mulattin (nl) f, halfbloed (nl) m or f, dubbelbloed m or f
• Finnish: mulatti (fi)
• French: mulâtre (fr) m or f, mulâtresse (fr) f (female)
• German: Mulatte (de) m, Mulattin (de) f
• Greek: μιγάς (el) m (migás)
• Hebrew: בן–תערובות (ben-ta'a'rovot)
• Hungarian: mulatt (hu)
• Italian: mulatto (it) m, mulatta (it) f
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• Japanese: ムラート (murāto)
• Macedonian: мулат m (mulat)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mulatt (no) m

  Nynorsk: mulatt m

• Polish: mulat (pl) m, mulatka (pl) f
• Portuguese: mulato (pt) m, mulata f
• Romanian: mulatru (ro) m, mulatră (ro) f
• Russian: мула́т (ru) m (mulát), мула́тка (ru) f (mulátka)
• Slovene: mulat (sl)
• Spanish: mulato m, mulata f
• Swedish: mulatt (sv) c
• Tagalog: mulato
• Volapük: mulat (vo)

See also

• half-breed
• half blood
• mixed-race
• red nigger
• quadroon
• octaroon

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -atto

Adjective

1. mulatto (attributive)

Noun

mulatto m (plural mulatti, feminine mulatta)

1. mulatto

Anagrams

• multato