Albino
early 18th century: from Portuguese (originally denoting albinos among African black people) and Spanish, from albo (from Latin albus ‘white’) + the suffix -ino (see -ine1).
wiktionary
Borrowed from Portuguese albino and Spanish albino.
- Portuguese albino is from Medieval Latin albinus, from Latin albus
- Spanish albino is diminutive of albo, from Latin albus(“white”).
etymonline
albino (n.)
"a person of pale, milky complexion, with light hair and pink eyes," also used of an animal characterized by the same condition or a plant with white leaves or flowers, 1777, from Spanish or Portuguese albino, from Latin albus "white" (see alb). Used by Portuguese of white-spotted African negroes. Extended 1859 to animals having the same peculiarity. As an adjective form albinotic is modeled on hypnotic and other words from Greek; albinistic also is used. A female form, if one is still wanted, was albiness (1808).
