meticcio

Italian

Alternative forms
  • mestizo, mestizzo (archaic or obsolete)
  • mesticcio (archaic or obsolete)

Etymology

Remade from or influenced by French métis, from Late Latin mixticius[1], from Latin mixtus. Cf. the older form mesticcio and also misticcio[2][3]. The archaic variants mestizo, mestizzo were taken from Spanish mestizo[4].

Noun

meticcio m (plural meticci, feminine meticcia)

  1. half-caste, half-breed
  2. crossbreed
  3. mongrel, pooch (dog)

Derived terms
  • meticciare

References
  1. http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/meticcio/
  2. http://www.academia.edu/982066/Letopea_di_Ginevra_o_il_Somnium_di_Bernardo_Ilicino
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=QFZwAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
  4. http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/meticcio/
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