mulatto

Borrowed from Portuguese and/or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin mūlus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules.[1]

• (US) IPA^(key): /muˈlɑtoʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /m(j)ʊˈlætəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ, -ætəʊ

mulatto (plural mulattoes or mulattos)

1. (historical, now sometimes derogatory) A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.

   Synonyms: mestizo, metis

mixed black and white:

• cabre, cob (cobb), griffe, Sambo (samboe), terceroon (3/4 black)
• marabou (5/8 black)
• costee, quadroon (1/4 black)
• mustee (mestee) / octoroon (octaroon) (1/8 black)
• fustee, hexadecaroon, musteefino (mustifino, mustiphini) (1/16 black)
• quintroon (quintoon) (1/16 or 1/32 black)
• dustee (1/32 black)

mixed white and Native

• castizo (1/4 Native)
• mameluco (1/2 Native)
• mestizo (any mix, especially 1/2 Native)
• sacatra

• mulatta, mulattress (female)

• brown
• browning
• half-breed
• half blood
• maroon
• mixed-race
• Mischling
• red nigger

• IPA^(key): /muˈlat.to/
• Rhymes: -atto
• Hyphenation: mu‧làt‧to

mulatto (feminine mulatta, masculine plural mulatti, feminine plural mulatte)

1. (relational) mulatto

mulatto m (plural mulatti, feminine mulatta)

1. mulatto

• multato