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Latino

la·tino

UK/ləˈtiːnəʊ/ US/ləˈtinoʊ/ uncommon us
adjective (1) noun (2)

adjective

1.

related to or derived from the people or culture of Spain

  • “the Hispanic population of California is growing rapidly”
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noun

1.
2.

an artificial language based on words common to the Romance languages

Origin

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”, adjective). 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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