latine

American  

[lah-tee-ney, luh-teen] / lɑˈti neɪ, ləˈtin /

Or Latine

adjective

1. of or relating to people of Latin American origin or descent (used especially by Spanish speakers in place of the anglicized gender-neutral form Latinx, the masculine form Latino, or the feminine formLatina ): More children’s books with latine authors and illustrators are being published than ever before.

   She’s absolutely the most influential singer in the latine community today.

   More children’s books with latine authors and illustrators are being published than ever before.

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noun

latines plural

1. a person of Latin American origin or descent (used especially by Spanish speakers in place of the anglicized gender-neutral form Latinx, the masculine form Latino, or the feminine formLatina ).

   The voice acting hits me, as a latine, as stereotyped and forced.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• latines
  plural

Etymology

Origin of latine

First recorded in 2015–20; Latin(o) ( def. ) + Latin(a) ( def. ) + -e, non-gender-specific ending for some nouns and adjectives derived from Spanish present participles, e.g., el/la estudiante “the student,” or importante “important”

Example Sentences

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latine latines

Here's Charlie Wilson: Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur If it's Thursday it must be Classic YouTube day.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2010

Beside the nearby dock a few latine rigged boats were pitching, moving their single mast, and a Spanish steamer, displaying its neutral flag, was unloading sacks of rice, and barrels of wine.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente

The vessel named fusta is a long, shallow, Indian-built row-boat, which uses latine sails in fine weather.

From The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences by Barrow, John, Sir

A splendid galley with latine sails and several banks of oars, displaying the standard of the Crescent, but likewise a white flag in sign of amity, came one day into the harbor.

From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Irving, Washington

For that which in speaking of goods and possessions, is called an Owner, and in latine Dominus, in Greeke Kurios; speaking of Actions, is called Author.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas

This difference we declyne, not as doth the latines and greekes, be terminationes, but with noates, after the maner of the hebrues, quhilk they cal particles.

From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

Of this letter the latines themselfes had tuae other sounds differing the ane from the other, and beath from this, quhilk they symbolized be adding an other voual, æ and au.

From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

This sound of it we, as the latines, also keepe befoer a, o, and u; as, canker, conduit, cumber.

From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

But w and y maekes sae soft a mynt that it is hard to perceave, and therfoer did the latines symboliz them with the symbol of the vouales.

From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

He shall shewe, that that whyche the grekes cal proboscida, or his snout, || the latines call his hande, because wyth that he reacheth hys meate.

From The Education of Children by Sherry, Richard