crioulo

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Crioulo (horse)

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• criollo

Borrowed from Portuguese crioulo. Doublet of creole and criollo.

crioulo (plural crioulos)

1. A native horse of South America, known for its speed and endurance.

• Crioulo

• couloir

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crioulo

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Uncertain but usually associated with cria (“offspring”), criar (“to breed; to rear”). Possibly a corruption of criadouro (“breeding place”).

• Rhymes: -owlu, -olu
• Hyphenation: cri‧ou‧lo

crioulo m (plural crioulos)

1. (linguistics) creole (a language that arises from the adoption of a pidgin as a first language)

   Crioulos de base portuguesa.

   Portuguese-based Creole languages.

2. (uncountable) Cape Verdean Creole; Crioulo
3. crioulo (a horse breed of South America)

crioulo m (plural crioulos, feminine crioula, feminine plural crioulas)

1. (historical) criollo (a descendant of European settlers who is born in a colony)
2. (historical) a slave born at the house of his master
3. (historical) a black person born in the Americas
4. Creole (a person of mixed African and European ancestry born in a colony or former colony)
5. (Brazil, dated, usually ethnic slur) nigger; negro (a person of sub-Saharan African descent)

   Synonyms: preto, (neutral) negro

• Kabuverdianu: kriolu
• → English: crioulo, Crioulo
• → Spanish: criollo
  • → English: criollo
  • → French: créole
    • → English: creole, Creole

crioulo (feminine crioula, masculine plural crioulos, feminine plural crioulas)

1. Creole (of mixed black and European descent)
2. Creole (pertaining to Creole culture)

   Adoro música crioula.

   I love Creole music.

3. (Brazil, dated, usually ethnic slur) black (of sub-Saharan African descent)
4. (linguistics) relating to creole languages