mestizo

Meaning

Noun

• A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
• a person of mixed ancestry, especially one of native Filipino and Spanish or Chinese ancestry, such as that of the Spanish mestizos and Chinese mestizos from the Spanish Colonial Era of the Philippines.

Origin

• Borrowed from Spanish mestizo, from Late Latin mixticius, from Latin mixtus ("mixed"). metis, which came from French.