creole English · revision 515

+ It is [[bor|fr|créole]], earlier [[m|fr|criole]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(Hoad 1986) [[der|es|criollo|t=(person) native to a locality]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(Hoad 1986) probably [[der|pt|crioulo]], a diminutive of [[m|pt|cria]] “person, especially a servant, raised in one's house”,^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) from [[m|pt|criar]] “to bring up, breed”, from Latin [[m|la|creāre]] “to create, beget” (see [[create]]).^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) Hoad notes that Portuguese ''crioulo'' meant a home-born slave in Brazil and was formerly used of animals reared at home.^(Hoad 1986)