What does "indio" mean?

A member of one of various indigenous peoples in the Americas, Pacific, and East Asia formerly subject to Spain or Portugal, specifically a Native American in Mexico or Brazil, or an indigenous inhabitant of the Philippines.

Indio

Q: What is a synonym for "indio"?

Common synonyms include: aboriginal, amerindian, asiatic, autocthonous, colonial label, ethnographic label.

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Noun

1
A member of one of various indigenous peoples in the Americas, Pacific, and East Asia formerly subject to Spain or Portugal, specifically a Native American in Mexico or Brazil, or an indigenous inhabitant of the Philippines.
"On the sugar estates the índios were then annihilated by the infections the Portuguese had brought from Europe."

Proper Noun

1
A city in Riverside County, California, United States.

Synonyms

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aboriginal amerindian asiatic autocthonous colonial label ethnographic label

Antonyms

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alien contemporary label foreign modern term

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"On the sugar estates the índios were then annihilated by the infections the Portuguese had brought from Europe."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish indio, Portuguese índio.

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