'Mulatto' is a word borrowed from Spanish 'mulato'. The word entered the English language some time around 1593.
mulatto [noun] [1593]
- the first-generation offspring of a black person and a white person
- a person of mixed white and black ancestry
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Etymology: Spanish 'mulato' from 'mulo' mule, from Latin 'mulus'
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