mulatto

Borrowed from Portuguese 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/
• Rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ, -ætəʊ

mulatto (plural mulattoes or mulattos)

1. (dated, often derogatory) A person of mixed black and white descent.

   Synonyms: mestizo, metis

2. (census) Anyone born to two half black and half white parents.
3. (census) Anyone who is three quarters black and one quarter white or one quarter black and three quarters white.

• mulatta, mulattress (female)

• half-breed
• half blood
• mixed-race
• red nigger

• Rhymes: -atto

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

1. mulatto (attributive)

mulatto m (plural mulatti, feminine mulatta)

1. mulatto

• multato