Latino
noun/læˈtiːnəʊ/
/læˈtiːnəʊ/
(plural Latinos)
- a person, especially one who is living in the US, who comes from Latin America, or whose family came from there compare ChicanoTopics People in societyc2Word OriginLatin American Spanish, probably a special use of Spanish latino, from Latin Latinus ‘of Latium’, an ancient region of west central Italy settled during the earlier part of the 1st millennium BCE.
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