noun, masculine/feminine/kʁe.ɔl/plural: Créoles
Creole:; a native-born of Latin descent in the Louisiana territory of any race or ethnicity, as opposed to Anglo-American settlers
An adaptation of the Castilian Spanish criollo (“homey, local yokel”), from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria (“person raised in one’s house, servant”), from Portuguese criar (“to rear, to bring up”), from Latin creō (“to create”)