different between mulatto vs marabou

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin m?lus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /mu?l?to?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /m(j)??læt??/
• Rhymes: -??t??, -æt??

Noun

mulatto (plural mulattoes or mulattos)

1. (historical, now sometimes derogatory) A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.

   Synonyms: mestizo, metis

Coordinate terms

mixed black and white:

• cabre, cob (cobb), griffe, Sambo (samboe) (3/4 black)
• marabou (5/8 black)
• costee, quadroon (1/4 black)
• mustee (mestee) / octoroon (octaroon) (1/8 black)
• fustee, hexadecaroon, mustiphini (1/16 black)
• quintroon (quintoon) (1/16 or 1/32 black)
• dustee (1/32 black)

mixed white and Native

• castizo (1/4 Native)
• mameluco (1/2 Native)
• mestizo (any mix, especially 1/2 Native)

Related terms

• mulatta, mulattress (female)

Translations

See also

• brown
• browning
• half-breed
• half blood
• maroon
• mixed-race
• red nigger

References

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?lat.to/
• Rhymes: -atto

Adjective

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

1. (relational) mulatto

Noun

mulatto m (plural mulatti, feminine mulatta)

1. mulatto

Anagrams

• multato

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• marabu

Etymology

From French marabou, an older spelling of marabout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæ??bu?/

Noun

marabou (plural marabous)

1. Leptoptilos crumeniferus, a large wading bird native to Africa, with a naked head and neck adapted for scavenging.
2. (dated, US, Louisiana) A person, five-eighths of whose ancestry is black; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.

   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

3. A kind of thrown raw silk, naturally nearly white, but capable of being dyed without scouring.
4. A thin fabric made from this silk, as for scarfs.

Synonyms

• (bird): adjutant stork, marabou stork

Coordinate terms

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

Translations