ladino

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Ladino (“mestizo”).
  2. A cunningly vicious, wild or unmanageable horse.
noun
  1. Trifolium repens (white clover).
name
  1. A Romance language mainly spoken by Sephardic Jews (Wikipedia), derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish) and Hebrew.
noun
  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.
name
  1. A surname from Spanish.

Pronunciation

/ləˈdiːnəʊ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ladino.wav /ləˈdinoʊ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Ladino.wav

Word forms

ladino ladinos

Etymology

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

Related words

Wiktionary’s coverage of Ladino terms
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