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ladino

/ləˈdiːnəʊ//ləˈdinoʊ/

ladino noun: a cunningly vicious, wild or unmanageable horse. Also the alternative letter-case form of Ladino.

Noun (1)

ladino (countable and uncountable, plural ladinos)

  1. (Southeastern, US, countable) A cunningly vicious, wild or unmanageable horse.

Noun (2)

ladino (countable and uncountable, plural ladinos)

  1. Trifolium repens (white clover).

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Ladino

Ladino

  1. A Romance language mainly spoken by Sephardic Jews (Wikipedia), derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish) and Hebrew.

Noun (3) capitalized: Ladino

Ladino (plural Ladinos)

  1. 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.2011, Barbara Rogoff, Developing Destinies: A Mayan Midwife and Town, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 89

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ladino

Ladino (plural Ladinos)

  1. A surname from Spanish.

Also used as

ladino is also the alternative letter-case form of Ladino.

Synonyms of ladino

Forms of ladino

Noun
pluralladinos
pluralLadinos
alternative formladino
Proper noun
pluralLadinos

Origin of ladino

Borrowed from Spanish ladino (“Latinized; crafty”).

Borrowed from Italian ladino (“Ladin”), because the clover grows in Ladin-speaking areas.

From Ladino לאדינו (ladino) (or from Spanish ladino), from Latin Latīnus (“Latin”). Doublet of Ladin and Latin.

Questions about ladino

What does ladino mean?
Ladino means a cunningly vicious, wild or unmanageable horse.
What part of speech is ladino?
Ladino can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ladino?
Ladino is pronounced /ləˈdiːnəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of ladino?
The plural of ladino is ladinos.

Words near ladino in the dictionary

  1. lading
  2. lading-can
  3. lading-cans
  4. ladings
  5. Ladinian
  6. ladino
  7. ladinos
  8. Ladins
  9. Ladislaus
  10. ladkin
  11. ladkins

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