Santerian.

1950 Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. 6 64 The worship of African deities, as it is practised in Cuba today, is known as santeria. The deities and the men and women who work with them are known by the Spanish words santos, santeros, and santeras, or by the Yoruba words orisha, babalorisha, and iyalorisha.

1953 Language 29 157 Lucumí is a term here used to refer to a language spoken in Cuba by practitioners of the religion known as Santería. In Cuba both the santeros and the language are often called Lucumí.

1956 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxvi. 34 In Cuba the practitioners of a religion known as Santeria use a variety of African language called Lucumí in their religious services.

1972 W. R. Bascom Shango in New World 20 A second major center of santeria in the United States, perhaps even more important than Miami, is New York City, where a Shango temple has been established. Apparently this has attracted not only Cuban refugees but also Puerto Ricans and New York Negroes.