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Latin@

/ləˈtinaʊ/

Latin@ noun: someone of Latin American descent; a Latino or Latina.

Noun

Latin@ (plural Latin@s)

  1. Someone of Latin American descent; a Latino or Latina.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Latin@.

Adjective

Latin@ (not comparable)

  1. Hispanic; Latino or Latina.

Synonyms of Latin@

Forms of Latin@

pluralLatin@s

Origin of Latin@

The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o. The pronunciation ending in /-aʊ/ is from how Latinao would be pronounced; the one ending in /-eɪ/ uses (approximately) the sound of Spanish -e, a vowel between a and o.

Questions about Latin@

What does Latin@ mean?
Latin@ means someone of Latin American descent; a Latino or Latina.
What part of speech is Latin@?
Latin@ can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce Latin@?
Latin@ is pronounced /ləˈtinaʊ/.
What is the plural of Latin@?
The plural of Latin@ is Latin@s.

Words near Latin@ in the dictionary

  1. Latin time
  2. Latin times
  3. Latin-1
  4. Latin-American
  5. Latin-American Spanish
  6. Latin@
  7. Latin@s
  8. latina
  9. Latina/o
  10. Latina/os
  11. Latinaness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Latin@ (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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