ladino

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ləˈdiːnəʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ləˈdinoʊ/

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

ladino (countable and uncountable, plural ladinos)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Ladino (“mestizo”).
   • 1879, George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, volume , page 89:

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

   • 2006, Charles R. Hale, More Than an Indian, School for Advanced Research on the, →ISBN:

     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...]

   • 2011, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     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.

2. (US, Southeastern US, countable) A cunningly vicious, wild or unmanageable horse.

Borrowed from Italian ladino (“Ladin”), because the clover grows in Ladin-speaking areas.

ladino (countable and uncountable, plural ladinos)

1. Trifolium repens (white clover).

• loadin', onlaid

Derived from Ladino לאדינו.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑdino/, [ˈlɑ̝dino̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑdino
• Syllabification^(key): la‧di‧no
• Hyphenation^(key): la‧di‧no

ladino

1. Ladino (Ibero-Romance language also known as Judaeo-Spanish)
2. synonym of ladin (a Rhaeto-Romance language)

• (Ibero-Romance): juutalaisespanja

• IPA^(key): /la.di.no/

ladino m (uncountable)

1. Ladino (language)

• IPA^(key): /laˈdi.no/
• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: la‧dì‧no

ladino m (uncountable)

1. the Ladin language, a Rhaetian tongue of northeastern Italy

   Synonym: lingua ladina

ladino m (plural ladini, feminine ladina)

1. native or inhabitant of the Ladin-speaking area of northeastern Italy (usually male)
2. a speaker of Ladin

ladino (feminine ladina, masculine plural ladini, feminine plural ladine)

1. of, from or relating to the Ladin-speaking area of northeastern Italy
2. (relational) of the Ladin language

• Danilo, Oldani, aldino, nodali

Inherited from Old Spanish ladino, variant of latino. In mediaeval Spain, both ladino and latino could refer to either Spanish or Latin,^[1] since most early Romance speakers thought that their languages were simply Latin. A similar tendency persisted in Judezmo (see for example the Ferrara Bible); many Sephardim thought that their language was simply Castilian or Spanish.

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ladino m (Hebrew spelling לאדינו)^[2]

1. Judezmo (especially in its literary form)

   Synonyms: djudeo-espanyol, djudezmo, djudio

   • 2019, Aki Yerushalayim:

     Oy el ladino tiene una vistimienta respektable sigun konviene a una lengua ke es eskrita desde mas de 500 anyos

     Today Ladino has respectable apparel: it fits a language that has been written for more than five centuries.

ladino

1. alternative form of latino

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “ladino”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 297

Either borrowed from Spanish ladino or re-Latinized after Latin latinus. The inherited form from Vulgar Latin is Portuguese ladinho. Doublet of latino, which was a later borrowing.

The sense of "sly" developed from a sense of "learned", in reference to learned people who knew Classical Latin.

ladino (feminine ladina, masculine plural ladinos, feminine plural ladinas)

1. wily; sly; cunning

   Synonyms: finório, matreiro

ladino m (plural ladinos, feminine ladina, feminine plural ladinas)

1. (roleplaying games) rogue

Taken from the proper names of the languages.

ladino m (uncountable)

1. Ladin (Romance language spoken in northeastern Italy)
2. Ladino (Romance language spoken by Sephardi Jews)

Borrowed from French ladino.

ladino n (uncountable)

1. Ladino (language)

• IPA^(key): /laˈdino/ [laˈð̞i.no]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: la‧di‧no

Inherited from Latin latīnus; compare latín, latino, doublets which were borrowed later. Compare also Portuguese ladino (“learned, cultured”). The sense of "astute" or "crafty" developed from medieval times, when the word was used to describe scholars and learned people, who were familiar with Latin and were involved in a process of "Latinization", i.e. using and incorporating learned terms. It was also used as a general designation for Romance speakers in the Middle Ages, as opposed to others speaking different kinds of languages, especially Arabic in the context of Spain/Iberia (compare the name of Ladino, the Sephardic Jewish language of Spain, descended from a form of Old Spanish, as well as the Ladin of northern Italy). The sense of "mestizo" developed in colonial Central America when the term was originally applied to those indigenous people who came to speak only Spanish.^[1]

ladino (feminine ladina, masculine plural ladinos, feminine plural ladinas)

1. astute, crafty, acute
2. (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama) mestizo

• sagaz
• romance

ladino m (plural ladinos)

1. a mestizo person
2. (historical) a black slave able to speak Spanish

Taken from the proper names of the languages.

ladino m (uncountable)

1. the Ladin language of Italy
2. Ladino, Judeo-Spanish

• “ladino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024