mamelucoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese mameluco, from Arabic مَمْلُوك (mamlūk, “slave”). Doublet of mameluke.

名詞

mameluco (plural mamelucos)

1. A child born of one white parent and one Brazilian Indian parent. [from 19th c.]
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 50:

     The reverse is the case in South America, where the mixture of the Portuguese or Brazilian with the Indian produces the "Mameluco," who is not unfrequently lighter than either parent, and always lighter than the Indian.

   • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 126:

     The Tupi, who a few years earlier had flourished along these opulent coasts, had already been driven farther and farther back into the forest, and appeared in the records […] only as occasional domestic slaves and already mainly present as mixed blood mamelucos, the first children of multiracial Brazil.

等位語

• (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto

形容詞

mameluco (comparative more mameluco, superlative most mameluco)

1. (dated or historical) Born of a white father and American Indian mother, particularly in South America.

参照

• “mameluco”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.