Latino
A person, especially a male, from Latin America: contraction of latinoamericanoA person, especially a male, from Latin America: contraction of latinoamericano. (Compare Latina.)
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16 sentencesLatinos can't promote themselves gracefully, kowtowing to others!
Some Latinos want to learn sinograms.
This is a predominantly Latino mosque.
Meaning
2 senses(US)A person, especially a male, from Latin America: contraction of latinoamericano. (Compare Latina.)
Latinos have quickly become the largest ethnic minority in the United States.
Latino
латиноамерика́нецlatinoamerikánec, латиноамерика́нкаlatinoamerikánka, латино́сlatinós
a native of Latin America
A person of a country that predominantly speaks a language that derives from the Latin language.
Origin
American English, first attested in the 1960s for a person of Spanish-speaking or Latin AmAmerican English, first attested in the 1960s for a person of Spanish-speaking or Latin American ancestry (notably Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban), originally an (informal) shortened form of Spanish latinoamericano (“Latin American”, adjective). Its appearance probably coincided with the colloquial use of Anglo (for a person of British or White US descent) and Afro (for a person of Black or African US descent).
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