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mestiso

mestiso is the archaic form of mestizo.

Meaning of mestizo

Noun

mestizo (plural mestizos or mestizoes)

  1. (US) A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
  2. (Philippines, historical) A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Austronesian Filipino and Spanish or Chinese ancestry, such as that of the Spanish mestizos and Chinese mestizos from the Spanish Colonial Era of the Philippines.

Forms of mestiso

pluralmestisos
pluralmestisoes

Questions about mestiso

What is mestiso the archaic form of?
Mestiso is the archaic form of mestizo.

Words near mestiso in the dictionary

  1. mesteso
  2. Mesteth
  3. mestino
  4. mestinoes
  5. mestinos
  6. mestiso
  7. mestisoes
  8. mestisos
  9. mestiz
  10. mestiz@
  11. mestiz@s

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mestiso (page history and authors); mestizo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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