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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish castizo.
Noun
castizo (plural castizos)
- (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.
Coordinate terms
- (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto
Galician
Etymology
From casta (“progeny; race”) + -izo.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
castizo m (plural castizos)
- male pig; boar
- Synonyms: castal, castizal, verrón
Adjective
castizo (feminine castiza, masculine plural castizos, feminine plural castizas)
- fit for procreation
- genuine, characteristic; pure-bred, unmixed
- Synonym: enxebre
1777, anonymous author, Romance da urca de Santo Antón:como tí ben conoces que són Jallejo castizo ó falarche en Castillano sería un gran desatino- as you know, I'm a genuine Galician, and to talk to you in Castilian would be a great blunder
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “castizo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “castizo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “castizo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Etymology
Uncertain. Most likely derived from casta + -izo. Less likely from a Vulgar Latin *casticeus, from Latin castus (“pure”). Cf. also Spanish casto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /kasˈtiθo/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /kasˈtiso/
- Rhymes: -iθo
- Rhymes: -iso
- Syllabification: cas‧ti‧zo
Adjective
castizo (feminine castiza, masculine plural castizos, feminine plural castizas)
- pure-bred
- pure, original, fully-fledged
- (linguistics) pure
- (historical) having 3/4 white and 1/4 American Indian ancestry
- Synonym: cuarterón
Derived terms
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