mestizo
A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritageA person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
» Mestizos don't belong to any caste, and so they tend to be marginalized.
Meaning
2 senses(US)A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
Mestize, Mestizin
a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
(Philippines, historical)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.
Examples
2 sentencesMestizos don't belong to any caste, and so they tend to be marginalized.
A Japanese woman told me that Nagasaki is the center of many mestizos from Japanese and Portuguese.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Borrowed from Spanish mestizo, from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). DouBorrowed from Spanish mestizo, from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of metis, which came from French.
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