Associations to the word «Ladino»

Wiktionary

LADINO, noun. Trifolium repens, a larger variety of white clover.
LADINO, noun. (dated) (Central America) A mixed-race descendant of whites and Native Americans; a mestizo.
LADINO, noun. (US) (Southeastern US) A cunningly vicious horse.
LADINO, proper noun. A Romance language, derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish) and Hebrew.
LADINO, noun. A person in Latin America who speaks Spanish and is "Westernized", and whose culture is a mixture of European Spanish and Native American descent, a mestizo.

Dictionary definition

LADINO, noun. A person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry).
LADINO, noun. The Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats