Ladino
noun
a Romance language of Sephardic Jews, based on Old Spanish and written in the Hebrew script.
Ladino
American
[luh-dee-noh, lah-thee-naw]
/ ləˈdi noʊ, lɑˈði nɔ /
noun
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Ladinos
plural
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Also called Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo. a Romance language of Sephardic Jews, based on Old Spanish and written in the Hebrew script.
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(in Spanish America) a mestizo.
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(lowercase) a wild, unmanageable, or vicious horse or other ranch animal.
Ladino
1
British
/ ləˈdiːnəʊ /
noun
ladino
2
British
/ ləˈdiːnəʊ /
noun
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Origin of Ladino
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The Ladino Hanukkah classic “Ocho Kandelikas” blared from the speakers while the Ahmed sisters of Houston hunted in vain for a clear spot to pose in their matching hijabs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2022
The boy had been with his father, Garcia's husband Noel Ladino, in a bid to migrate to the United States.
From Reuters ● Jul. 3, 2021
These include Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and the peculiar but widely popular Ladino.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2020
He and his wife communicated in Ladino, a form of Old Spanish that incorporated words from Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic, and other languages.
From The New Yorker ● May 7, 2019
When we’ve all finished, I break into a song by Flory Jagoda—a woman who was a champion of Sephardic music and sang in Ladino.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
The place now has plots of ladino clover, chufa, bahia grass, small grains and even corn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Allowing the beeves to scatter, the old ranchero met and rode zigzagging through them until he came face to face with the pinto ladino.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams
The presidente was absent, but his wife, an active, bustling intelligent ladino, expected us, and did everything possible for our comfort.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
We saddled the best horses in our remuda for the occasion, and sallied forth to the lair of the ladino bull, like a procession of professional bull-fighters.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams
There are a lot of big ladino beeves in those brushy hills to the south and west.
From A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams
A love of music seems to be universal among all classes in Central America, especially among the Ladinos or mixed population.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 by Various
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