War, law & rule

caste

Portuguese casta meant 'breed, lineage'; the Portuguese applied it to the hereditary groups of Indian society and English took it over, while in colonial Mexico Spanish casta named the ranked categories of mixed ancestry. Whether casta goes back to Latin castus 'pure' is debated.

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