MESTIZO (adopted from the

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• SPANISH

Spanish, the Portuguese

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• FORM (Lat. forma)

form being mestico, from

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• LAT

Lat. miscere, to mix)  , a term originally meaning a half-breed, one of whose parents was Spanish, and now used occasionally of any half-breed, but especially to denote persons of mixed Spanish (or Portuguese) and American Indian blood . The offspring of such half-breeds are also'called mestizoes . The feminine form is mestiza .