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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Latino

"male Latin inhabitant of the United States" (fem. Latina), 1946, American English, from American Spanish, shortening of Latinoamericano "Latin-American" (see Latin America). As an adjective, attested from 1974.

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latino

n. (alternative case form of Latino English)

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Latino (demonym)

Latino ( or ) is a term often used to refer to people with cultural ties to Latin America and people of nationalities within the bounds of Latin America, in contrast to Hispanic which is a demonym that includes Iberians and other speakers of the Spanish language as well as Brazilians and Latinos. The term Latino can be used to refer to males or females, whereas the term Latina is used to refer to females only.

The U.S. government's Office of Management and Budget has defined Hispanic or Latino people as being those who "trace their origin or descent to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Central and South America, and other Spanish cultures." The United States Census uses the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino to refer to "a person of Dominican, Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race." The Census Bureau also explains that "[o]rigin can be viewed as the heritage, nationality group, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the person’s ancestors before their arrival in the United States. People who identify their origin as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish may be of any race." Hence the U.S. Census and the OMB are using the terms differently. The U.S. Census and the OMB use the terms in an interchangeable manner, where both terms are synonyms. The AP Stylebooks recommended usage of Latino in Latin America includes not only persons of Spanish-speaking ancestry, but also more generally includes persons "from — or whose ancestors were from — . . . Latin America, including Brazilians." However, in the recent past, the term "Latinos" was also applied to people from Caribbean region, including people from former Dutch and British colonies.

Latino (singer)

Roberto de Souza Rocha (born February 2, 1973) is a Brazilian recording artist and entertainer. Latino has sold more than 4 million CDs along his career.

Latino (disambiguation)

In English, Latino can refer to:

  • Hispanic and Latino Americans, an ethnic group in the United States
  • A Latin American
Latino (film)

Latino is a 1985 American war film directed by Haskell Wexler. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.

Usage examples of "latino".

The second wave of immigrants - southern Europeans, Asians, Irish and Latinos - encountered an entrenched dominant culture of mostly Anglo- and northern-European Protestants, and suffered accordingly.

But despite all that, the combination of economic growth, government investment in broad-based programs to encourage upward mobility, and a modest commitment to enforce the simple principle of nondiscrimination was sufficient to pull the large majority of blacks and Latinos into the socioeconomic mainstream within a generation.

Just sit in the tub and forget arson, pyros, Latino thugs, Irish gangsters, and lovers with enigmatic attitudes.

She and Cokebottle, a Latino Grawer whose homid name was Richard Cortez, had spent the past four hours in the soup kitchen, ladling out thick, homemade fresh potato soup to a steady stream of South Central homeless bums of both sexes.

New Mexico, Latinos fought for land and water rights against real estate developers who tried to throw them off land they had lived on for decades.

By 1991, 80,000 Latinos lived in North Carolina, 30,000 in north Georgia.

The AFL-CIO put on hundreds of new organizers to work among Latinos, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans.

We oppress the gays, blacks, Latinos, Asians, Indians, plants, bugs, minerals, the ozone, the snail darter, the wetlands, and the moon.

No sin algún escándalo recordé que Ben Jonson le hacía recitar hexámetros latinos y griegos y que el oído, el incomparable oído de Shakespeare, solía equivocar una cantidad, entre la risotada de los colegas.

Except in this script, the homeless torch victim that Hampton Drane rescued was a poor but not homeless beautiful young Latino girl, brutally raped by a gang of twenty-nine Latino boys who throw her onto various car hoods and break her legs with a tire iron and stab her with sharpened popsicle sticks, then use her own Flame-Off against her.

Forcing the party to abandon anti-immigrant, English-only campaigns, the president courageously urged a program to legalize Latino workers in the United States, increase immigration, and, in effect, grant amnesty to those already in the country, even if they had arrived illegally.

A skinny Latino girl had given him a crash course in how to stay alive with a sharpened blade.

One was Latino, the other black, and they were dressed identically: baggy jeans with crotches that drooped to their knees, muscle shirts, and doo-rags on their heads.

In fact, this form of herbal medicine is still widely used in rural areas of Mexico, Central and South America, and by California Latinos for relief of rheumatism and arthritis pain.

There were singles, couples, entire families, blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos and four towering Samoan men all with black porkpie hats, beautiful sloe-eyed women willow graceful in their turquoise or ruby or sapphire saris, others in chadors and others in jeans, men in business suits, men in shorts and bright Polo shirts, four young Hasidic Jews arguing (but joyfully) over the most mystical of all documents (a Los Angeles freeway map), uniformed soldiers, giggling children and shrieking children and two placid octogenarians in wheelchairs, a pair of tall Arab princes in akals and keffiyehs and flowing jellabas, preceded by fierce bodyguards and trailed by retinues, beacon-red tourists drifting homeward on the astringent fumes of medicated sunburn lotion, pale tourists arriving with the dampish smell of cloudy country clinging to them -and, like a white boat strangely serene in a typhoon, the man in the Panama hat sailing imperiously through the polygenic sea.