# ladino
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ləˈdiːnəʊ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ləˈdinoʊ/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish ladino (“Latinized; crafty”).

#### Noun

ladino (countable and uncountable, plural ladinos)
* Alternative letter-case form of Ladino (“mestizo”)
** 1879, George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, volume , page 89:In the production of the ladino the white element has almost always been represented by the father […]
** 2006, Charles R. Hale, More Than an Indian, School for Advanced Research on the, →ISBN:Yolanda's fluctuation between mestizo and ladino is symptomatic of this analytical dilemma. Her inclination to embrace mestizaje signals a deep process of social change underway, in which critical ladino / mestizo self-making has played [a part...]
** 2011, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:Differentiated from both mulat(t)o and ladino, mestizo/mestico references specifically the mixing of white and Indian, whether phenotypically (simply in terms of the offspring of mixed intercourse) or culturally, and even linguistically.
* (US, Southeastern US, countable) A cunningly vicious, wild or unmanageable horse.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian ladino (“Ladin”), because the clover grows in Ladin-speaking areas.

#### Noun

ladino (countable and uncountable, plural ladinos)
* Trifolium repens (white clover).

### Anagrams

* loadin', onlaid

## Finnish
### Etymology

Derived from Ladino לאדינו.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɑdino/, [ˈlɑ̝dino̞]
* Rhymes: -ɑdino
* Hyphenation: la‧di‧no

### Noun

ladino
* Ladino (Ibero-Romance language also known as Judaeo-Spanish)
* Synonym of ladin (a Rhaeto-Romance language)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of ladino (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ladinoni
accusative
nom.
ladinoni
gen.
ladinoni
genitive
ladinoni
partitive
ladinoani
inessive
ladinossani
elative
ladinostani
illative
ladinooni
adessive
ladinollani
ablative
ladinoltani
allative
ladinolleni
essive
ladinonani
translative
ladinokseni
abessive
ladinottani
instructive
comitative
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ladinosi
accusative
nom.
ladinosi
gen.
ladinosi
genitive
ladinosi
partitive
ladinoasi
inessive
ladinossasi
elative
ladinostasi
illative
ladinoosi
adessive
ladinollasi
ablative
ladinoltasi
allative
ladinollesi
essive
ladinonasi
translative
ladinoksesi
abessive
ladinottasi
instructive
comitative
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ladinomme
accusative
nom.
ladinomme
gen.
ladinomme
genitive
ladinomme
partitive
ladinoamme
inessive
ladinossamme
elative
ladinostamme
illative
ladinoomme
adessive
ladinollamme
ablative
ladinoltamme
allative
ladinollemme
essive
ladinonamme
translative
ladinoksemme
abessive
ladinottamme
instructive
comitative
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ladinonne
accusative
nom.
ladinonne
gen.
ladinonne
genitive
ladinonne
partitive
ladinoanne
inessive
ladinossanne
elative
ladinostanne
illative
ladinoonne
adessive
ladinollanne
ablative
ladinoltanne
allative
ladinollenne
essive
ladinonanne
translative
ladinoksenne
abessive
ladinottanne
instructive
comitative
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
ladinonsa
accusative
nom.
ladinonsa
gen.
ladinonsa
genitive
ladinonsa
partitive
ladinoaan ladinoansa
inessive
ladinossaan ladinossansa
elative
ladinostaan ladinostansa
illative
ladinoonsa
adessive
ladinollaan ladinollansa
ablative
ladinoltaan ladinoltansa
allative
ladinolleen ladinollensa
essive
ladinonaan ladinonansa
translative
ladinokseen ladinoksensa
abessive
ladinottaan ladinottansa
instructive
comitative

#### Synonyms

* (Ibero-Romance): juutalaisespanja

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /la.di.no/

### Noun

ladino m (uncountable)
* Ladino (language)

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laˈdi.no/
* Rhymes: -ino
* Hyphenation: la‧dì‧no

### Noun

ladino m (uncountable)
* the Ladin language, a Rhaetian tongue of northeastern Italy
    Synonym: lingua ladina

### Noun

ladino m (plural ladini, feminine ladina)
* native or inhabitant of the Ladin-speaking area of northeastern Italy (male or of unspecified gender)
* a speaker of Ladin

### Adjective

ladino (feminine ladina, masculine plural ladini, feminine plural ladine)
* of, from or relating to the Ladin-speaking area of northeastern Italy
* (relational) of the Ladin language

### Anagrams

* Danilo, Oldani, aldino, nodali

## Ladino
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish ladino, variant of latino. In mediaeval Spain, both ladino and latino could refer to either Spanish or Latin, since most early Romance speakers thought that their languages were simply Latin. A similar tendency persisted in Judezmo (see for example the Ferrara Bible); many Sephardim thought that their language was simply Castilian or Spanish.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Proper noun

ladino m (Hebrew spelling לאדינו)
* Judezmo (especially in its literary form)
    Synonyms: djudeo-espanyol, djudezmo, djudio
** 2019, Aki Yerushalayim:Oy el ladino tiene una vistimienta respektable sigun konviene a una lengua ke es eskrita desde mas de 500 anyosToday Ladino has respectable apparel: it fits a language that has been written for more than five centuries.

### References

* ↑ Max Weinreich (2008) Shlomo Noble, Joshua A. Fishman, transl., Paul Glasser, editor, History of the Yiddish Language, volume I, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page A110
* ↑ “ladino”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Old Spanish
### Adjective

ladino
* Alternative form of latino

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “ladino”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 297

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /laˈd͡ʒĩ.nu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /laˈd͡ʒĩ.nu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /laˈd͡ʒi.no/
* (Portugal) IPA: /lɐˈdi.nu/ [lɐˈði.nu]

### Etymology 1

Either borrowed from Spanish ladino or re-Latinized after Latin latinus. The inherited form from Vulgar Latin is Portuguese ladinho. Doublet of latino, which was a later borrowing.
The sense of "sly" developed from a sense of "learned", in reference to learned people who knew Classical Latin.

#### Adjective

ladino (feminine ladina, masculine plural ladinos, feminine plural ladinas)
* wily; sly; cunning
    Synonyms: finório, matreiro

#### Noun

ladino m (plural ladinos, feminine ladina, feminine plural ladinas)
* (roleplaying games) rogue

### Etymology 2

Taken from the proper names of the languages.

#### Noun

ladino m (uncountable)
* Ladin (Romance language spoken in northeastern Italy)
* Ladino (Romance language spoken by Sephardi Jews)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ladino.

### Noun

ladino n (uncountable)
* Ladino (language)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laˈdino/ [laˈð̞i.no]
* Rhymes: -ino
* Syllabification: la‧di‧no

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin latīnus; compare latín, latino, doublets which were borrowed later. Compare also Portuguese ladino (“learned, cultured”). The sense of "astute" or "crafty" developed from medieval times, when the word was used to describe scholars and learned people, who were familiar with Latin and were involved in a process of "Latinization", i.e. using and incorporating learned terms. It was also used as a general designation for Romance speakers in the Middle Ages, as opposed to others speaking different kinds of languages, especially Arabic in the context of Spain/Iberia (compare the name of Ladino, the Sephardic Jewish language of Spain, descended from a form of Old Spanish, as well as the Ladin of northern Italy). The sense of "mestizo" developed in colonial Central America when the term was originally applied to those indigenous people who came to speak only Spanish.

#### Adjective

ladino (feminine ladina, masculine plural ladinos, feminine plural ladinas)
* astute, crafty, acute
* (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama) mestizo

##### See also

* sagaz
* romance

#### Noun

ladino m (plural ladinos)
* a mestizo person
* (historical) a black slave able to speak Spanish

### Etymology 2

Taken from the proper names of the languages.

#### Noun

ladino m (uncountable)
* the Ladin language of Italy
* Ladino, Judeo-Spanish

### Further reading

* “ladino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “ladino”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos