Macaistn.adj.

Brit.

/məˈkɑːɪst/, U.S.

/məˈkɑəst/

Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese Macaista.

Etymology: < Portuguese Macaista < the place name Macao (see macao n.) + -ista -ist suffix.

An inhabitant of Macao, esp. one of mixed European and Asian descent. Also as adj.

ΚΠ

1918 Macao (Hist. Sect. Foreign Office) i. 4 A feature of Portuguese colonization..is ‘the procreation of a mixed, but legitimate and Christian race’. Such a race are the Macaists, or Nhons, as they are locally called..in whose veins runs Chinese, Japanese, and Malay blood.

1935 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 796/2 The islands Colowan and Taipa also belong to the settlement [sc. Macao], whose..pop. [is] close upon 160,000, of whom only some 4000 are Portuguese, the rest being mostly Chinese; the Macaists or Nhons are a people of mixed European and Asiatic descent.

1962 G. H. Dunne Generation of Giants i. 15 In 1563 there were eight Jesuits in Macao working among the five thousand Macaists of whom nine hundred were Portuguese.

1962 G. H. Dunne Generation of Giants xi. 185 Harassed by the small arms fire of a party of Macaist and negro sharpshooters.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	macaist
释义	Macaistn.adj. Brit. /məˈkɑːɪst/, U.S. /məˈkɑəst/ Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese Macaista. Etymology: < Portuguese Macaista < the place name Macao (see macao n.) + -ista -ist suffix. An inhabitant of Macao, esp. one of mixed European and Asian descent. Also as adj. ΚΠ 1918 Macao (Hist. Sect. Foreign Office) i. 4 A feature of Portuguese colonization..is ‘the procreation of a mixed, but legitimate and Christian race’. Such a race are the Macaists, or Nhons, as they are locally called..in whose veins runs Chinese, Japanese, and Malay blood. 1935 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 796/2 The islands Colowan and Taipa also belong to the settlement [sc. Macao], whose..pop. [is] close upon 160,000, of whom only some 4000 are Portuguese, the rest being mostly Chinese; the Macaists or Nhons are a people of mixed European and Asiatic descent. 1962 G. H. Dunne Generation of Giants i. 15 In 1563 there were eight Jesuits in Macao working among the five thousand Macaists of whom nine hundred were Portuguese. 1962 G. H. Dunne Generation of Giants xi. 185 Harassed by the small arms fire of a party of Macaist and negro sharpshooters. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1918
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