Ladino

//ləˈdinoʊ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Romance language mainly spoken by Sephardic Jews (Wikipedia), derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish) and Hebrew.
  2. 2
    A surname from Spanish.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    Trifolium repens (white clover). countable, uncountable
  3. 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. 4
    the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script wordnet
  5. 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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