castizo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish castizo.

Noun

castizo (plural castizos)

1. (historical, under the caste system of colonial Latin America) The offspring of a European and a mestizo; someone of three quarters European and one quarter Amerindian ancestry.

Coordinate terms

• (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto

Galician

Etymology

From casta (“progeny; race”) +‎ -izo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtiθo̝/

Noun

castizo m (plural castizos)

1. male pig; boar

   Synonyms: castal, castizal, verrón

Adjective

castizo (feminine castiza, masculine plural castizos, feminine plural castizas)

1. fit for procreation
2. genuine, characteristic; pure-bred, unmixed

   Synonym: enxebre

   • 1777, anonymous author, Romance da urca de Santo Antón‎^[1]:

     como tí ben conoces que són Jallejo castizo ó falarche en Castillano sería un gran desatino

     as you know, I'm a genuine Galician, and to talk to you in Castilian would be a great blunder

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “castizo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “castizo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “castizo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain. Most likely derived from casta +‎ -izo. Less likely from a Vulgar Latin *casticeus, from Latin castus (“pure”). Cf. also Spanish casto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kasˈtiθo/ [kasˈt̪i.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kasˈtiso/ [kasˈt̪i.so]
• Rhymes: -iθo
• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: cas‧ti‧zo

Adjective

castizo (feminine castiza, masculine plural castizos, feminine plural castizas)

1. pure-bred
2. pure, original, fully-fledged
3. (linguistics) pure
4. (historical) having 3/4 white and 1/4 American Indian ancestry

   Synonym: cuarterón

Derived terms

• casticismo
• casticista

 

Further reading

• “castizo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10