terceroon

terceroon
terceroon (n.) offspring of a white and a mulatto, 1760, from Sp. *terceron, from tercero "a third (person)," from tercio "third," from L. tertius "a third," from root of tres "three" (see THREE (Cf. three)). So called from being third in descent from a Negro.

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