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/laˈtino/

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Translation

Latin American; Latin

Word origin

From Latin latinus, the adjective for Latium, the region of ancient Italy around Rome where the Latin language originated.

Origin
Latin
Root
latinus
English cognates
Latin, Latino

Grammar

Femininelatina
Masc plurallatinos
Fem plurallatinas

Examples

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Latin American music is listened to all over the world.

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She has Latin American roots on her mother's side.

¿ ?

Are you Latin American or European?

In everyday Spanish, latino almost always means Latin American - people, music, food, culture from Latin America - not "Latin" in the ancient Roman sense (that reading survives mainly in set phrases like lengua latina, the Latin language). English narrows the word further still: "Latino" in American English usually names people of Latin American descent living in the US specifically, a sense Spanish speakers in Latin America itself do not use.

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