Mulatto Definition

mo͝o-lătō, -lätō, myo͝o-
mulattoes, mulattos
noun
A person with mixed black and Caucasoid ancestry; specif., a person who has one black and one white parent.
Webster's New World

(census) Anyone born to two half-African and half-Caucasian parents.

Wiktionary
adjective
Of a mulatto.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Mulatto

Noun

Singular:
mulatto
Plural:
mulattoes, mulattos

Origin of Mulatto

  • From Spanish or Portuguese mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule"), from mulo (“mule"), from Latin mulus (“mule"). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules..

    From Wiktionary

  • Spanish mulato small mule, person of mixed race, mulatto from mulo mule from Old Spanish from Latin mūlus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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