mestiso

mestiso (plural mestisos or mestisoes)

1. Archaic form of mestizo.

Borrowed from Spanish mestizo, from Late Latin mixticius, from Latin mixtus + -īcius.

• Hyphenation: mes‧ti‧so

mestiso

1. biracial, multiracial, mixed race

• mestizo
• mistiso

Borrowed from Spanish mestizo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /mesˈtiso/ [mɛsˈt̪iː.so]
• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: mes‧ti‧so

mestiso (feminine mestisa, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜐᜓ)

1. mestizo; mixed-blood; half-blooded; mixed-race; mixed heritage
2. (by extension) fair-skinned male

mestiso (feminine mestisa, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜐᜓ)

1. mestizo
2. (by extension) handsome fair-skinned male, usually of mixed Filipino and white heritage

• tisoy

• Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN, page 94