Where does “créole” come from?
créole (French) comes from Spanish criollo, from Portuguese crioulo, from Portuguese cria, from Portuguese criar, from Old Portuguese criar, from Latin creō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥- — army.
créole (French): Creole; creole language
Ancestry of “créole”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Spanish | criollo | creole; unmixed European-descended Latin... |
| 2 | Portuguese | crioulo | criollo; a slave born at the house of his master;... |
| 3 | Portuguese | cria | young; offspring; kid; young'un; someone who is... |
| 4 | Portuguese | criar | to create, to put into existence; to invent; to... |
| 5 | Old Portuguese | criar | to raise |
| 6 | Latin | creō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |
Words derived from “créole”