mestizo.
A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
Meaning & usage
A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Austronesian Filipino and Spanish or Chinese ancestry, such as that of the Spanish mestizos and Chinese mestizos from the Spanish Colonial Era of the Philippines.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Spanish mestizo, from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of metis, which came from French.
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