mestizo

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

• IPA^(key): /mɛs.ˈti.zoʊ/

mestizo (plural mestizos or mestizoes)

1. A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.

• Metis, metis
• mulatto

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

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /mesˈtiθo/, [mesˈt̪iθo]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /mesˈtiso/, [mesˈt̪iso]
• Rhymes: -iso

mestizo (feminine singular 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

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

1. A person of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage
2. A person whose ethnic heritage is of both aboriginal and colonial descent

• (person of mixed Caucasoid and Amerindian descent who lives in the Americas): ladino, cholo

• (person of mixed Caucasoid and Amerindian descent who lives in Spain): Panchito and Sudaca - used in a derogatory and discriminatory way instead of Latino.

• mezclar
• mecer
• mesto
• mestura
• mixto