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