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Added 9 October 2026

mestizo

/mɛsˈtiː.zoʊ/ noun

Latin root: mixtīcius Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about mestizo at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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.

Origin

Borrowed from Spanish mestizo, from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of metis, which came from French.

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