Creole

 
Pronunciation: /ˈkriːəʊl/
(also creole)

noun

  • 1a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean.
  • 2a descendant of Spanish or other European settlers in the Caribbean or Central or South America.
  • a white descendant of French settlers in Louisiana and other parts of the southern US.
  • 3a mother tongue formed from the contact of a European language (especially English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese) with local languages (especially African languages spoken by slaves in the West Indies): a Portuguese-based Creole

adjective

  • relating to a Creole or Creoles: a restaurant serving both international and Creole cuisine research on pidgin and Creole languages

Origin:

from French créole, criole, from Spanish criollo, probably from Portuguese crioulo 'black person born in Brazil', from criar 'to breed', from Latin creare 'produce, create'