latine

American  

[lah-tee-nay, 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

Quherfoer, to make a conformitie baeth in latine and English, we man begin with the latine.

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

This word canting seemes to bee deriued from the latine verbe canto, which signifies in English, to sing, or to make a sound with words,—that is to say, to speake.

From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by John Awdeley

Neyther for thys muste we call chyldren to lerne the tonges after sixtene yere olde, because that the elder Cato lerned latine, and Greeke, when he was thre score and ten yeres olde.

From The Education of Children by Richard Sherry

The sails are strictly neither latine nor lug, but sufficiently like the former to be picturesque, especially in the distance.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper

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 Richard Sherry

Townes they plant none, nor other standing buildings, but haue walking houses, which the latines call Veij, built vpon wheeles like a shepheards cottage.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Richard Hakluyt

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 Henry Benjamin Wheatley

The midle tongue stryking on the rouf of the mouth formes the rest, c, g, k, j, q, and x, and so we have 18 consonantes borrowed of the latines.

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

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 Henry Benjamin Wheatley