Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

musteefino

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mus-teefi-no
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A child who is 1/16 black: the offspring of a mustee and a white parent.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"[…] while the children of a musteefino are free by law, and rank as white persons to all intents and purposes ."
"while the children of a musteefino were free under the old slavery laws, and rank as white persons to all intents and purposes."
"[…] from the mulatto and white comes the quadroon; from the quadroon and white, the mustee; the child of a mustee by a white man is a musteefino; while the ..."

Etymology

From Spanish mestizo fino or a short form thereof; compare English mustee from Spanish mestizo.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: mestizo fino

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

musteefinos (plural) musteefinoes (plural) mustifino (alternative) mustiphini (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

list in mulatto

Questions

What does musteefino mean?: A child who is 1/16 black: the offspring of a mustee and a white parent.
Where does musteefino come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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