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criollo.

creole

7 characters2 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈkɾjoʝo/[ˈkɾjo.ʝo]/ˈkɾjoʝo/[ˈkɾjo.ʝo]
  1. creole

  2. Related from people descended from European parents living in the Americas

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Portuguese crioulo (“white person born in the colonies; slave born in the house of his master; black person born in the colonies”).

noun/ˈkɾjoʝo/[ˈkɾjo.ʝo]/ˈkɾjoʝo/[ˈkɾjo.ʝo]
  1. creole

    masculine
  2. a person descended from European parents living in the Americas

    masculine
  3. Spaniard born and/or raised in Spanish America who immigrated or visited the Spanish Colonial Philippines or Spanish East Indies in general

    Philippines · historical · masculine · obsolete
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Portuguese crioulo (“white person born in the colonies; slave born in the house of his master; black person born in the colonies”).

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