raza

race, ethnicity; breed, strain, lineage; people; group of friends or relatives

“La ascendencia compartida es lo que define a las razas.” — Shared ancestry is what defines races.

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Italian razza (compare other Romance cognates such as French race, Catalan raça, Occitan raça).

cleft, fissure; beam of light, ray of light; crack (in a horse’s hoof); stripe

Inherited from Old Spanish raça, from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius. Probably a doublet of raya. Compare also Romanian rază (“ray of light”).