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Ladino
//ləˈdinoʊ// name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A Romance language mainly spoken by Sephardic Jews (Wikipedia), derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish) and Hebrew.
- 2 A surname from Spanish.
Noun
- 1 Alternative letter-case form of Ladino (“mestizo”). alt-of, countable, uncountable
"In the production of the ladino the white element has almost always been represented by the father […]"
- 2 Trifolium repens (white clover). countable, uncountable
- 3 A person in Latin America whose culture or ancestry is a mixture of European Spanish and Native American, especially one who speaks Spanish; a mestizo.
"[A]lthough almost all Pedranos consider themselves fully Mayan, many have some European and Ladino ancestry, stemming especially from prior generations when Spanish authorities governed the town."
- 4 the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script wordnet
- 5 A cunningly vicious, wild or unmanageable horse. Southeastern, US, countable
Etymology
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Spanish ladino (“Latinized; crafty”).
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Italian ladino (“Ladin”), because the clover grows in Ladin-speaking areas.
Etymology 3
From Ladino לאדינו (ladino) (or from Spanish ladino), from Latin Latīnus (“Latin”). Doublet of Ladin and Latin.
Etymology 4
From Spanish ladino (“Latinized”).
Etymology 5
Borrowed from Spanish Ladino. This surname is mostly found in Colombia.
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