castizo

Borrowed from Spanish castizo.

castizo (plural castizos)

1. (historical, under the caste system of colonial Latin America) The offspring of a European and a mestizo; someone of three quarters European and one quarter Amerindian ancestry.

From casta (“progeny; race”) +‎ -izo.[1]

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtiθo̝/

castizo m (plural castizos)

1. male pig; boar

   Synonyms: castal, castizal, verrón

castizo m (plural castizos, feminine castiza, feminine plural castizas)

1. fit for procreation
2. genuine, characteristic; pure-bred, unmixed
   • 1777, anonymous, Romance da urca de Santo Antón:

     como tí ben conoces que són Jallejo castizo ó falarche en Castillano sería un gran desatino

     as you know, I'm a genuine Galician, and to talk to you in Castilian would be a great blunder

   Synonym: enxebre

• “castizo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “castizo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “castizo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Of uncertain origin. Most likely derived from casta +‎ -izo. Less likely from a Vulgar Latin *casticeus. Cf. also Spanish casto.

castizo (feminine singular castiza, masculine plural castizos, feminine plural castizas)

1. pure-bred
2. pure, original, fully-fledged
3. (linguistics) pure
4. Used historically to describe a person of 3/4 European and 1/4 American Indian ancestry