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): /ˈkɾjoʝo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ˈkɾjoʎo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ˈkɾjoʃo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ˈkɾjoʒo/ [ˈkɾjo.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -oʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -oʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -oʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -oʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
- criollo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es