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
- ají criollo
- criollismo
- criollito
- criollo haitiano
- pabellón criollo
- pato criollo
- terapia criolla
Further reading
- “criollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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