Creole peoples were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations (or free men and women of color). They were also referred to as "criollos", a word from the Spanish language meaning "created" and used in the post-French governance period to distinguish the two groups of New Orleans area and down river Creoles. Both mixed race and European Creole groups share many traditions and language, but their socio-economic roots differed in the original period of Louisiana history. Actually, the French word Creole is derived from the Portuguese word "Crioulo", which described Spaniards born in the Americas as opposed to Spain.
Etymology of cannabis following: Etymology of cannabis The plant name Cannabis is from Greek ('), via Latin ', originally a Scythian or Thracian word, also loaned into Persian as '. English "hemp" (Old English ') may be an early loan (predating Grimm's Law) from the same Scythian source. The "Oxford English Dictionary" records the earliest usages of "cannabis" meaning the plant "common hemp, "Cannabis sativa"" in 1548 and meaning parts of the plant "smoked, chewed, or drunk for their intoxicating or hallucinogenic properties" in 1848. The "OED" traces the etymology to the New Latin botanical term "cannabis" – proposed in 1728 and standardized