Also called Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo. a Romance language of Sephardic Jews, based on Old Spanish and written in the Hebrew script.
(in Spanish America) a mestizo.
(lowercase) a wild, unmanageable, or vicious horse or other ranch animal.
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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
Wilder went with Ladino because the couple believed traveling with a small child would improve his chances of being admitted 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
Other stories say it came to Greece along with Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in the fifteenth century, who, even in Salonika, called it by its Ladino name, sopa de huevo y limón.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 23, 2017
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
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