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Llanito

Llanito proper noun: a vernacular spoken primarily in Gibraltar, based on a mix of Andalusian Spanish and English, but also influenced by Genoese, Hebrew, Portuguese, Italian and Maltese.

Proper noun

Llanito

  1. A vernacular spoken primarily in Gibraltar, based on a mix of Andalusian Spanish and English, but also influenced by Genoese, Hebrew, Portuguese, Italian and Maltese.

Noun

Llanito (plural Llanitos)

  1. (informal) A Gibraltarian.

Forms of Llanito

Proper noun
alternative formYanito
Noun
pluralLlanitos

Origin of Llanito

From Spanish Llanitos (“people of the flatlands”), or from Italian Gianni (“Johnny”).

Questions about Llanito

What does Llanito mean?
Llanito means a vernacular spoken primarily in Gibraltar, based on a mix of Andalusian Spanish and English, but also influenced by Genoese, Hebrew, Portuguese, Italian and Maltese.
What part of speech is Llanito?
Llanito can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Llanito in the dictionary

  1. Llanion
  2. Llanis
  3. Llanishen
  4. Llanita
  5. Llanitas
  6. Llanito
  7. Llanitos
  8. Llanllechid
  9. Llanllwchaiarn
  10. Llanllyfni
  11. Llanmadoc

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Llanito (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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