criollo

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criollo, -a

adjective

1= native to Latin America

2creole (comida, lengua)

masculine or feminine noun

3= person (black or white) born in Latin America

masculine noun

4creole (idioma)

criollo [cre-ol’-lyo, lyah]

adjective

1Creole, one born in America or the West Indies, of European parents. (n)

2The Negro born in America, as opposed to one brought from Africa. (n)

adjective

3Indigenous, national.

criolloa criolla

adjetivo

1 (Hist) Creole; (de origen español) of Spanish extraction

2 (Latinoamérica) (no extranjero) native; native to America

sustantivo:masculino

femenino

1 (Hist) Creole

2 (Latinoamérica) Peruvian/Colombian/Ecuadorean, etc; native of a particular Latin American country, as opposed to a foreigner

un español y dos criollos a Spaniard and two natives

3 (And) (cobarde) coward

sustantivo:masculino

(Lingüística) Creole

como dicen en criollo as they say in Latin America/Peru etc;etc

Paid English to Spanish translation

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foreseeable, predictable