mestizo
Spanish
adj
Definitions
- Of mixed, Spanish and Native American heritage
- also of mixed indigenous (aboriginal) and colonial (European) descent
Etymology
Inherited from Latin mixticius, mixticĭus, mixtus (mixed).
Origin
Latin
mixtus
Gloss
mixed
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Metis English
- mesteso English
- mestizo English
- metis English
- mix English
- *ammixticō Latin
- *mixticāre Latin
- *mixticō Latin
- *mixtāre Latin
- *miхtīcius Latin
- animālia mixta Latin
- mixticius Latin
- mixticius, mixticĭus Latin
- mixtus Latin
- meticcio Italian
- misto Italian
- mixte French
- métis French
- métisser French
- метис Russian
- mestizaje Spanish, Castilian
- mesto Spanish, Castilian
- mixto Spanish, Castilian
- σύμμεικτος Ancient Greek
- *meyḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- mestiço Portuguese
- misto Portuguese
- mikse Norwegian Nynorsk
- mestif Old French
- mestis Old French
- mixte Old French
- misto Galician
- amesteca Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mistreț Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mestiso Cebuano
- mestiso Tagalog
- mestis Middle French
- mesto Old Portuguese
- amestar Asturian