criollo

See also: Criollo

English

Noun

criollo (plural criollos)

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/ [ˈkɾjo.ʝo]
IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈkɾjoʎo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʎo]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkɾjoʃo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʃo]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkɾjoʒo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʒo]

(most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -oʝo
(rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -oʎo
(Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -oʃo
(elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -oʒo

Syllabification: crio‧llo

Adjective

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

creole
Related from people descended from European parents living in the Americas

Noun

criollo m (plural criollos)

creole
a person descended from European parents living in the Americas
(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

Derived terms

Further reading

“criollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
criollo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

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