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Latino

See also: latino, latinó, latino-, Latino-, latin@, and Latin@

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Etymology

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American English, first attested in the 1960s for a person of Spanish-speaking or Latin American ancestry (notably Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban), originally an (informal) shortened form of Spanish latinoamericano (“Latin American”, adj). Its appearance probably coincided with the colloquial use of Anglo (for a person of British or White US descent) and Afro (for a person of Black or African US descent).

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Latino (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly US) Of Latin American descent, Hispanic.
    • 2013, Richard Lee Colvin, Tilting at Windmills:
      She called Ottinger a "tool" of the business community and Lopez a "box checker,” apparently meaning that he was only nominally Latino and that he had acted in a way that was detrimental to the interests of Latinos.

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Noun

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Latino (plural Latinos)

  1. (chiefly US) A person, especially and usually (interpreted as) a male, from Latin America, a Hispanic person. (Compare Latina.)
    Latinos have quickly become the largest ethnic minority in the United States.
    • 2010, Mark R. Warren, Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11:
      Certainly, the activists in this study believe that Latinos face antibrown racism and consider racial justice for Latinos to be an increasingly important part of America's racial justice agenda.
    • 2013, Richard Lee Colvin, Tilting at Windmills:
      She called Ottinger a "tool" of the business community and Lopez a "box checker,” apparently meaning that he was only nominally Latino and that he had acted in a way that was detrimental to the interests of Latinos.

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Esperanto

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [laˈtino]
  • Rhymes: -ino
  • Hyphenation: La‧ti‧no

Proper noun

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Latino (accusative Latinon)

  1. Latin (the Latin language)

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French

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Noun

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Latino m (plural Latinos)

  1. Alternative spelling of latino

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German

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Etymology

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Spanish latino

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Noun

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Latino m (strong, genitive Latinos or Latino, plural Latinos, feminine Latina)

  1. Latino (person from Latin America)

Declension

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Declension of Latino [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Latino die Latinos
genitive eines des Latinos, Latino der Latinos
dative einem dem Latino den Latinos
accusative einen den Latino die Latinos

Latin

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Adjective

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Latīnō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of Latīnus
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