The story
- Latin · derived frommixtus“mixed”
- Late Latin · derived frommixtīcius
- Spanish · borrowed frommestizo
- English todaymestizo
Borrowed from Spanish mestizo, from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of metis, which came from French.
Words from the same roots
Spanishmestizo all →
mesteso
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.