criollo
Spanish
adj
Definitions
- creole
- (Latin America) unmixed European-descended Latin American
- Latin American
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese crioulo (creole, slave born in the house of his master, white person born in the colonies, black person born in the colonies).
Origin
Portuguese
crioulo
Gloss
creole, slave born in the house of his master, white person born in the colonies, black person born in the colonies
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Creole English
- crioulo English
- creool Dutch, Flemish
- créole French
- anticrioulo Portuguese
- crioulo Portuguese
- クリオーリョ Japanese
- crioll Catalan, Valencian
- krioyo Papiamentu
- kreyòl Haitian, Haitian Creole
- kriolu Kabuverdianu
- kreol Mauritian Creole
- kreyòl Louisiana Creole French
- kreyòl Antillean Creole
- Krio Krio