Ethnicity Flashcards
a black person or other foreigner (see Molina) {CN}
ayaquimati
a black man or black woman; someone of African heritage (see Molina) {CN}
cacatzac
Spaniards
(a loanword from Spanish, rooted in the place of origin, Castilla) {CN}
castilteca
a person with (theoretically) one-quarter indigenous heritage, three-quarters Spanish; sometimes translated as a “quadroon; “ the female version is castiza
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}
castizo
in Spanish, or more literally, in Castilian
(a loanword from Spanish, Nahuatlized) {CN}
caxtilcopa
Castile, or Spain
(a loanword from the Spanish, Castilla, Nahuatlized) {CN}
Caxtillan
people from Castile (Castilla), i.e. Spaniards
(includes a loanword from Spanish, Nahuatlized) {CN}
caxtillan tlaca
Spaniards, literally Castillians
(a loanword from Spanish, Nahuatlized) {CN}
caxtilteca
Spaniard
(a loanword from Spanish, Nahuatlized)
[Fuente: James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 213.] {CN}
caxtiltecatl
an ethnic group, enemies of the Mexica
[Fuente: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 – The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 53.] {CN}
Cempoalteca
the Chichimecs, a non-sedentary people of the North; sometimes also called Teochichimeca; referenced as the ancestors of the Mexica
(central Mexico, seventeenth century)
[Fuente: Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Anton Mui±on Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 106–109.] {CN}
Chichimeca
a person of mixed ethnic heritage; or a Chinese person
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}
chino
a runaway slave (see attestations)
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}
cimarron
resident of Coatlan (see Karttunen); plural: Coateca {CN}
Coatecatl
an ethnic group, ancient inhabitants of Tamoanchan in the southern basin, Valley of Mexico
(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
[Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garcia (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 137, note 6.] {CN}
Cocolca
a very russet-colored or dark-skinned man (see Molina) {CN}
cozpol
an American-born Spaniard
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}
criollo
the people of the Huaxteca
[Fuente: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagiºn, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 – Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 34.] {CN}
cuexteca
a Spaniard (male) (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}
espai±ol
a Spanish-born Spaniard in the Americas; increasingly, a derogatory term {CN}
gachupin
a Dutch person
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}
holandes
an indigenous person (noun); indigenous (adjective)
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}
indio
English; or, an English person
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}
ingles