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ladino en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ləˈdinoʊ/ (US)
  • /ləˈdiːnəʊ/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, countable, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Ladino (“mestizo”).
    alt of Ladino
    • In the production of the ladino the white element has almost always been represented by the father […] 1879, George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, volume , page 89:
    • 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...] 2006, Charles R. Hale, More Than an Indian, School for Advanced Research on the, →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. 2011, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
  2. (Southeastern, US, countable) A cunningly vicious, wild or unmanageable horse.

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ladino en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ləˈdinoʊ/ (US)
  • /ləˈdiːnəʊ/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Trifolium repens (white clover).

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