Castizo
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Castizo is a noun meaning (historical, under the caste system of colonial Latin America) The offspring of a European and a mestizo; someone of three quarters European and one quarter Amerindian ancestry.
Meaning
(historical, under the caste system of colonial Latin America) The offspring of a European and a mestizo; someone of three quarters European and one quarter Amerindian ancestry.
Word Forms
- castizos
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mestizo, ladino, half-breed, harnizo, mixed-blood, creole.
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