mestizon.adj.

Brit.

/mɛˈstiːzəʊ/,

/mᵻˈstiːzəʊ/, U.S.

/mɛˈstizoʊ/,

/məˈstizoʊ/

Forms: 1500s mastizo, 1500s–1600s mestico, 1500s–1600s 1900s– mestiço, 1600s mastiso, 1600s mastizoes (plural), 1600s mesteco, 1600s mestick, 1600s mesticoe, 1600s mestisa, 1600s mestiso, 1600s mistecho, 1600s mostesa, 1600s mustechee, 1600s musteese, 1600s musteezo, 1600s mustezo, 1600s–1700s mestise, 1600s–1700s mostese, 1600s– mestize, 1600s– mestizo, 1600s– mestizoes (plural), 1600s– mestizos (plural), 1700s mastize, 1700s mestigo, 1700s mestito, 1700s mistice, 1700s mustechees (plural), 1700s mustice, 1700s mustizoes (plural), 1800s mustazoes (plural). Also with capital initial.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Spanish. Partly a borrowing from Portuguese. Etymons: Spanish mestizo; Portuguese mestiço.

Etymology: Partly < Spanish mestizo (1487; also in form mistizo ), and partly < Portuguese mestiço (14th cent.; also in form mistiço ), both cognate with Old Occitan mestitz (12th cent.), French métis (see metis n.) < post-classical Latin misticius , mixticius mingled together (Vetus Latina, translating Hellenistic Greek σύμμεικτος (Septuagint, but already in ancient Greek)) < classical Latin mixtus mixed adj.² + -īcius (see -itious suffix¹). Compare Italian mestizo (16th cent.), German Mestize (late 16th cent.), Dutch mesties (1596 as mestise ; also †mestiso ). Compare also mestino n., mestiza n., and mustee n.The form mestizo is predominant in current usage, but the form mestiço , after Portuguese, is sometimes used in discussions of Portuguese or Portuguese-speaking areas (see e.g. quot. 1983 at sense B. 1). In quot. 1598 via Dutch.

A. n. A person of mixed European (esp. Spanish or Portuguese) and non-European parentage; spec. (originally) a man with a Spanish father and an American Indian mother; (later) a person of mixed American Spanish and American Indian descent.

Hence, more generally: any person of mixed racial origin. Cf. metis n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person white and Amerindian

mestizo1598

topass1680

half-breed1760

Paulist1772

bois brûlé1805

mameluco1809

metis1816

Paulista1817

mestino1842

ladino1877

redbone1890

mestizaje1943

cholo1959

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxix. 53/2 The children of Mestiços are of colour and fashion like the naturall borne Countrimen.

1600 F. Pretty in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 814 A Mestizo is one which hath a Spaniard to his father and an Indian to his mother.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 486 The Portugalls many of them are married with Indian women, and their posteritie are called Mesticos.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 57 Beyond the Outworks live a few Portugals Mustezos or Misteradoes.

1700 E. Littleton et al. Let. 16 Nov. in W. Hedges Diary (1888) II. p. ccix It's alsoe of very ill consequence that your Covenant servants should intermarry with any of the people of the Country or those of mixed Race or Mustechees.

1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile iii. 76/1 The Mestito's or Mungrel Breed of a Spanish Man and Indian Woman.

1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 240 Quatron Indians, born of Whites and Mestizos.

1782 H. Walpole Let. to W. Mason 8July in Lett. (1858) VIII. 251 Even demigods have intermarried till their race are become downright mestises.

1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (1845) v. 21 What gives these Mestizos a peculiarly striking appearance is the excessively long hair of the head.

1875 F. Jagor Trav. Philippines 290 Creoles and mestizes are for the most part too idle even to keep sheep.

1941 R. A. Humphreys Latin Amer. 6 In Brazil..half the population is white, but Indians predominate in the interior, mestizos in the north, and the negro element is strong in Bahia.

1973 National Geographic May 642/1 Juan himself is a mestizo, part Indian, part Spanish.

1998 New Yorker 23 Feb. 141/3 The group consisted of a dozen farmworkers who were mestizos from Michoacán.

B. adj. (attributive).

1. That is, or is characteristic of, a mestizo; of or relating to mestizos. Also in extended use.

ΚΠ

1617 R. Cocks in W. Foster Lett. received by E. India Co. (1901) V. 15 There came a Mestisa Indian to me.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxiii. 10 A poor Seaman had got a pretty Mustice Wife.

1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 136 Pablo Sevallos the mestizo lad.

1887 L. Oliphant Episodes (ed. 4) vi. 118 There was absolutely nothing to see in the sleepy little mestizo town.

1892 H. H. Bancroft Chron. Builders Commonw. VII. xxvii. 460 Aboriginal traits are noted in the mestizo writers.

1936 Pacific Affairs 9 38 The Democrata party (mestizo offspring of the conservative and pro-American Progresista party and the radical Partido Democrata Nacional).

1970 L. Grebler et al. Mexican-Amer. People xiv. 322 A leisured ‘Spanish’ hidalgia and a mass of mestizo and Indian laborers.

1983 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Dec. 1392/3 Whitlam..could not conceive that the Timorese could take charge of their political destiny. True, the educated élite, both full-blooded and mestiço, was tiny.

1998 Art Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 57 14 To miss is to lose, but for Zenil, a mestizo gay male, to hit the target—to be himself in contemporary Mexico—is to suffer.

†2. Designating the wool produced by South American mixed breeds of sheep; also designating such a mixed breed. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] > from specific animal

pulled1813

alpaca1824

mestizo1854

cross-bred1962

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > that is bred or has died in particular way

traiked1828

metis1848

mestizo1854

half-bred1891

line-bred1891

1854 De Bow's Rev. May 468 South American are divided into ‘merino’, ‘mestizo’, ‘common’, and ‘Cordova’, which are received in the condition of ‘washed and free from burr’, ‘washed and burry’, or ‘unwashed’.

1861 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 24 82 The climate and herbage..which..favour the merino and mestizo breeds (for which Wool there is a sufficient and increasing demand) would prove..unsuitable to a larger kind.

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Mestizo Mestizo wool, South-American wool from mixed breeds of sheep.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mestizo
释义	mestizon.adj. Brit. /mɛˈstiːzəʊ/, /mᵻˈstiːzəʊ/, U.S. /mɛˈstizoʊ/, /məˈstizoʊ/ Forms: 1500s mastizo, 1500s–1600s mestico, 1500s–1600s 1900s– mestiço, 1600s mastiso, 1600s mastizoes (plural), 1600s mesteco, 1600s mestick, 1600s mesticoe, 1600s mestisa, 1600s mestiso, 1600s mistecho, 1600s mostesa, 1600s mustechee, 1600s musteese, 1600s musteezo, 1600s mustezo, 1600s–1700s mestise, 1600s–1700s mostese, 1600s– mestize, 1600s– mestizo, 1600s– mestizoes (plural), 1600s– mestizos (plural), 1700s mastize, 1700s mestigo, 1700s mestito, 1700s mistice, 1700s mustechees (plural), 1700s mustice, 1700s mustizoes (plural), 1800s mustazoes (plural). Also with capital initial. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Spanish. Partly a borrowing from Portuguese. Etymons: Spanish mestizo; Portuguese mestiço. Etymology: Partly < Spanish mestizo (1487; also in form mistizo ), and partly < Portuguese mestiço (14th cent.; also in form mistiço ), both cognate with Old Occitan mestitz (12th cent.), French métis (see metis n.) < post-classical Latin misticius , mixticius mingled together (Vetus Latina, translating Hellenistic Greek σύμμεικτος (Septuagint, but already in ancient Greek)) < classical Latin mixtus mixed adj.² + -īcius (see -itious suffix¹). Compare Italian mestizo (16th cent.), German Mestize (late 16th cent.), Dutch mesties (1596 as mestise ; also †mestiso ). Compare also mestino n., mestiza n., and mustee n.The form mestizo is predominant in current usage, but the form mestiço , after Portuguese, is sometimes used in discussions of Portuguese or Portuguese-speaking areas (see e.g. quot. 1983 at sense B. 1). In quot. 1598 via Dutch. A. n. A person of mixed European (esp. Spanish or Portuguese) and non-European parentage; spec. (originally) a man with a Spanish father and an American Indian mother; (later) a person of mixed American Spanish and American Indian descent. Hence, more generally: any person of mixed racial origin. Cf. metis n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person white and Amerindian mestizo1598 topass1680 half-breed1760 Paulist1772 bois brûlé1805 mameluco1809 metis1816 Paulista1817 mestino1842 ladino1877 redbone1890 mestizaje1943 cholo1959 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxix. 53/2 The children of Mestiços are of colour and fashion like the naturall borne Countrimen. 1600 F. Pretty in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 814 A Mestizo is one which hath a Spaniard to his father and an Indian to his mother. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 486 The Portugalls many of them are married with Indian women, and their posteritie are called Mesticos. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 57 Beyond the Outworks live a few Portugals Mustezos or Misteradoes. 1700 E. Littleton et al. Let. 16 Nov. in W. Hedges Diary (1888) II. p. ccix It's alsoe of very ill consequence that your Covenant servants should intermarry with any of the people of the Country or those of mixed Race or Mustechees. 1703 tr. A. de Ovalle Hist. Relation Chile iii. 76/1 The Mestito's or Mungrel Breed of a Spanish Man and Indian Woman. 1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 240 Quatron Indians, born of Whites and Mestizos. 1782 H. Walpole Let. to W. Mason 8July in Lett. (1858) VIII. 251 Even demigods have intermarried till their race are become downright mestises. 1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (1845) v. 21 What gives these Mestizos a peculiarly striking appearance is the excessively long hair of the head. 1875 F. Jagor Trav. Philippines 290 Creoles and mestizes are for the most part too idle even to keep sheep. 1941 R. A. Humphreys Latin Amer. 6 In Brazil..half the population is white, but Indians predominate in the interior, mestizos in the north, and the negro element is strong in Bahia. 1973 National Geographic May 642/1 Juan himself is a mestizo, part Indian, part Spanish. 1998 New Yorker 23 Feb. 141/3 The group consisted of a dozen farmworkers who were mestizos from Michoacán. B. adj. (attributive). 1. That is, or is characteristic of, a mestizo; of or relating to mestizos. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1617 R. Cocks in W. Foster Lett. received by E. India Co. (1901) V. 15 There came a Mestisa Indian to me. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxxiii. 10 A poor Seaman had got a pretty Mustice Wife. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 136 Pablo Sevallos the mestizo lad. 1887 L. Oliphant Episodes (ed. 4) vi. 118 There was absolutely nothing to see in the sleepy little mestizo town. 1892 H. H. Bancroft Chron. Builders Commonw. VII. xxvii. 460 Aboriginal traits are noted in the mestizo writers. 1936 Pacific Affairs 9 38 The Democrata party (mestizo offspring of the conservative and pro-American Progresista party and the radical Partido Democrata Nacional). 1970 L. Grebler et al. Mexican-Amer. People xiv. 322 A leisured ‘Spanish’ hidalgia and a mass of mestizo and Indian laborers. 1983 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Dec. 1392/3 Whitlam..could not conceive that the Timorese could take charge of their political destiny. True, the educated élite, both full-blooded and mestiço, was tiny. 1998 Art Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 57 14 To miss is to lose, but for Zenil, a mestizo gay male, to hit the target—to be himself in contemporary Mexico—is to suffer. †2. Designating the wool produced by South American mixed breeds of sheep; also designating such a mixed breed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] > from specific animal pulled1813 alpaca1824 mestizo1854 cross-bred1962 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > that is bred or has died in particular way traiked1828 metis1848 mestizo1854 half-bred1891 line-bred1891 1854 De Bow's Rev. May 468 South American are divided into ‘merino’, ‘mestizo’, ‘common’, and ‘Cordova’, which are received in the condition of ‘washed and free from burr’, ‘washed and burry’, or ‘unwashed’. 1861 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 24 82 The climate and herbage..which..favour the merino and mestizo breeds (for which Wool there is a sufficient and increasing demand) would prove..unsuitable to a larger kind. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Mestizo Mestizo wool, South-American wool from mixed breeds of sheep. 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