Mestee
English
noun
Definitions
- A mixed race person, especially if mostly white in ancestry, appearance and culture.
- A member of an old mixed race group, particularly those groups which identify more with their white ancestry than with their black or Native American ancestry, like the Melungeons and the Brass Ankles.
- A person who is mostly white and less than one eighth black.
- In the West Indies, a person who is one eighth black (an octoroon).
Etymology
Derived from Middle French mestis (a person of mixed race) derived from Latin mixtus (mixed).
Origin
Latin
mixtus
Gloss
mixed
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mix English
- *ammixticō Latin
- *mixticāre Latin
- *mixticō Latin
- *mixtāre Latin
- animālia mixta Latin
- mixticius Latin
- mixticius, mixticĭus Latin
- mixtus Latin
- misto Italian
- mixte French
- mesto Spanish, Castilian
- mixto Spanish, Castilian
- σύμμεικτος Ancient Greek
- *meyḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- misto Portuguese
- mikse Norwegian Nynorsk
- mestif Old French
- mixte Old French
- misto Galician
- amesteca Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mestis Middle French
- mesto Old Portuguese
- amestar Asturian