Meaning of ladino | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Romance language mainly spoken by Sephardic Jews (Wikipedia), derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish) and Hebrew.
2. 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.
3. A surname from Spanish.
4. Alternative letter-case form of Ladino (“mestizo”).
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
5. Trifolium repens (white clover).
   countable, uncountable
6. A cunningly vicious, wild or unmanageable horse.
   Southeastern, US, countable

Equivalents

Examples

“In the production of the ladino the white element has almost always been represented by the father […]”

“Yolanda's fluctuation between mestizo and ladino is symptomatic of this analytical dilemma. Her inclination to embrace mestizaje signals a deep process of social change underway, in which critical ladino / mestizo self-making has played [a part...]”

“Differentiated from both mulat(t)o and ladino, mestizo/mestico references specifically the mixing of white and Indian, whether phenotypically (simply in terms of the offspring of mixed intercourse) or culturally, and even linguistically.”

“[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.”

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