criollo

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English

Noun

criollo (plural criollos)

  1. Alternative form of Criollo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese crioulo (“white person born in the colonies; slave born in the house of his master; black person born in the colonies”).

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈkɾjoʝo/
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈkɾjoʎo/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkɾjoʃo/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkɾjoʒo/

 

  • Syllabification: crio‧llo

Adjective

criollo (feminine criolla, masculine plural criollos, feminine plural criollas)

  1. creole
  2. Related from people descended from European parents living in the Americas

Noun

criollo m (plural criollos)

  1. creole
  2. a person descended from European parents living in the Americas
  3. (Philippines, historical, obsolete) Spaniard born and/or raised in Spanish America who immigrated or visited the Spanish Colonial Philippines or Spanish East Indies in general
    Synonym: americano
    Coordinate terms: peninsular, insular, filipino, filipina

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