mulattoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /mʊˈlɑtoʊ/, [məˈlɑɾoʊ̯]
• (Caribbean) IPA: /mʊˈlaːtoː/
• (英国発音) IPA: /m(j)ʊˈlætəʊ/
• 韻: -ɑːtəʊ, -ætəʊ

名詞

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

   • 1949, Edward Nicholas, The hours and the ages: a sequence of Americans, page 77:

     Respectable folk who did not want trouble stayed withindoors; but young apprentices were abroad in force; Negroes and mulattoes; rope- makers and laborers from along the waterfront; and sailors hastening ashore from the ships […]

   • 2004, Arthur Herzog, Jr, Icetopia, page 78:

     The supermodelesque mulatto woman licked her lips and smiled invitingly.

   • 2005, Jeffrey M. Shumway, The Case of the Ugly Suitor & Other Histories of Love, Gender, & Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870:

     The official mouthpiece of the Rosas government, La Gaceta Mercantil, praised Afro-Argentines as “valiant defenders of liberty who have won fame and glory in a hundred battles,” adding that “General Rosas so appreciates the mulattos and morenos that he has no objection to seating them at his table and eating with them.”
     In other respects, however, the persistence of racism against Afro-Argentines, Indians, and gauchos showed regrettable continuities with the colonial past.

等位語

mixed black and white:

• sacatra (7/8 black)
• cabre, cob (cobb), griffe, Sambo (samboe), terceroon (3/4 black)
• marabou (5/8 black)
• costee, quadroon (1/4 black)
• mustee (mestee) / octoroon (octaroon) (1/8 black)
• fustee, hexadecaroon, musteefino (mustifino, 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)

派生語

関連する語

• mulatta, mulattress (female)

参考

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

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