Puerto Rican
noun
- person from Puerto Rico
adjective
- related to Puerto Rico; having Puerto Rican heritage, citizenship, or source
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌpɔɹ.təˈɹiː.kən/ / /ˌpwɜː(ɹ).təˈɹiː.kən/ / /ˌpwɛə(ɹ).təˈɹiː.kən/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English Puerto Rico Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Puerto Rican From Puerto Rico + -an.
- Of, from or relating to Puerto Rico or its people.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English Puerto Rico Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Puerto Rican From Puerto Rico + -an.
- A person from Puerto Rico.
“Today many of our newcomers are from Mexico and Puerto Rico. We sometimes forget that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth and therefore cannot be considered immigrants. Nonetheless, they often receive the same discriminatory treatment and opprobrium that were faced by other waves of newcomers. The same things are said today of Puerto Ricans and Mexicans that were once said of Irish, Italians, Germans and Jews: “They’ll never adjust; they can’t learn the language; they won’t be absorbed.””