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- Philippine Spanish · borrowed frommestizo de español
- English todayMestizo de Español
From Philippine Spanish mestizo de español, from mestizo (“mixed”) + de (“of”) + español (“Spanish”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A person of mixed Spanish Filipino and ethnic Austronesian Filipino ancestry (especially during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines). Full definition →
From Philippine Spanish mestizo de español, from mestizo (“mixed”) + de (“of”) + español (“Spanish”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.