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He writes (in Spanish) "The child of a Black male and an Indian female, or of an Indian male and Black female, they call mulato and mulata. The children of these they call cholos. Cholo is a word from the Barlovento Islas [later known as Windward Islands ]; it means dog, not of the purebred variety, but of very disreputable origin; and the ...
In the English language, the term Latino is a loan word from American Spanish. [12] [13] (Oxford Dictionaries attributes the origin to Latin-American Spanish. [14]) Its origin is generally given as a shortening of latinoamericano, Spanish for 'Latin American'. [15] The Oxford English Dictionary traces its usage to 1946. [12]
The hairless variant is known as the Perro pelón mexicano or Mexican hairless dog. [1] It is characterized by its wrinkles and dental abnormalities . In Nahuatl , from which its name originates, it is xōlōitzcuintli [ʃoːloːit͡sˈkʷint͡ɬi] (singular) [ 2 ] and xōlōitzcuintin [ʃoːloːit͡sˈkʷintin] ( plural ). [ 2 ]
The Porrúa Dictionary defines cholo, as used in the Americas, as a civilized Native American or a half-breed or mestizo of a European father and Native American mother. The word has historically been used along the borderland as a derogatory term to mean lower class Mexican migrants, and in the rest of Latin America to mean an acculturating ...
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.
Latino, Latina and Latinx refer to people who are of Latin American descent. This includes people from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central and South America and Brazil, but excludes people from Spain.
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