English
Creole
Creole comes from French créole, and goes back to Portuguese crioulo.
- Portuguesec. 1500–presentcrioulo
- Spanishc. 1500–presentcriollo
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcréole
- Englishearliest quotation 1969Creole
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Portuguesec. 1500–presentcrioulo
- Spanishc. 1500–presentcriollo
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcréole
- Englishearliest quotation 1969Creole
Earliest quotation: 1969, Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, The Political Systems of Empires: “Within the Spanish society, a great difference evolved between…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- ‘to grow, become bigger’
increase, increasing, crew, decrease, cereal, crescent, croissant, increment, excrement, accretion, cru, kore, 27 more
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-eh₂yé-ti
through Latin creō ‘to create, make, produce’
create, creative, creation, creator, creature, creat, 14 more
Today it means
noun A descendant of European settlers who is born in a colonized country.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Portuguese crioulo / Creole