quadroon

The story

1. Latin · derived fromquartus“one-fourth”
2. Spanish · derived fromcuarterón“¾ white, a child of a European and a mestizo”
3. English todayquadroon

From Spanish cuarterón (“¾ white, a child of a European and a mestizo”), from cuarto (“one-fourth”) + -on (“-oon: forming related nouns”), from Latin quartus (“one-fourth”). Doublet of cuarteron.

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