Metis

Meanings

Proper Noun

• One of three recognized Aboriginal peoples of Canada, descendants of marriages of Cree, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, and Menominee Aboriginal people with French Canadians, Scots and English.
• A Titan who was the personification of wisdom, the first spouse of Zeus, and the mother of Athena
• A satellite of Jupiter.
• 9 Metis, a main belt asteroid.

Noun

• A member of one of these three Canadian Aboriginal peoples.
• A person of mixed European and Aboriginal descent.

Related

Similar words

• Bois Brule, Bois Brulé
• coloured
• country born
• mixed-blood
• half-breed

Origin

• Borrowed from French métis, from Old French, from Late Latin mixtīcius. Métis originally referred to Francophone and Cree-speaking descendants of the French-Catholic Red River Métis in Manitoba. Compare mestizo.
• From Ancient Greek Μῆτις from Ancient Greek μῆτις ("wisdom").