where did the word latino,latina come from?

Question

Doesn't the English language originate from Latin?

Answer 1

Latin America, that's why they are called latinos and latinas

Answer 2

No, English doesn't come from Latin. English is a Germanic language, and comes from the same source as German, Old French, Old Norse, Frisian, and a couple of others.

English has a lot of Latin in it because the Norman French invaded England (Norman French was still Germanic at the time) and English picked up a lot of Norman French vocabulary. But vocabulary doesn't determine a language's roots--for example, Japanese has thousands of English words in its lexicon but it's not a Germanic language. English has Germanic structure, syntax, verb forms, and essential vocabulary. About 80% of Old English is no longer in Modern English, but the 20% of Old English that remains in the language is essential stuff like: is, be, are, you, he, she, it, a, the. And so on. English has a lot of Latinate words because English speakers have always loved incorporating words from other languages into their own.

Latino/Latina comes from "Latin America"--Spanish comes from Latin, as does Portuguese. So does Italian, and also modern French. These are called "Romance" languages because of their Roman connection--the Roman empire took over these areas, Romans moved in, and people started speaking different languages based on Latin. There are also terms like Chicano and Mestizo which are cultural terms rather than linguistic terms. Latino/a would mean somebody who comes from a Spanish-speaking area--I don't think anybody applies it to Italian/Portuguese speakers but maybe they do. I don't know about that.

Answer 3

In Spanish history, before there was USA, the new land was called América, and Americanos were their inhabitants. Then, two hundred years later the USA was funded and somehow it took over the word America and then geographically modified the continent conviniently into South and north america (no other country recognizes two americas, north and south, it's seen as one continent, at least not in Spain, Portugal, and all Spanish colonized countries)
After that, there came another definition, (supposedly due to heritage and culture). And spanish colonized America became Latin America.....
Proffesors in "Latin American" countries have no explanation regarding why are they called "Latinos" since nobody but catholic priest were the ones who spoke latin during Mass in the new continent.

English does have some latin since at some point the Roman empire expanded all the way to what now is the UK.

Answer 4

English is a Germanic language, not a Romantic language. Spanish, Italian, Portugese, and Latin are all Romantic languages. The term "Latino" was created by bureaucrats that needed a term to lump ALL people who speak a dialect of Spanish together. Also true of the term, "Hispanic".

Answer 5

hey becker, isn't italian the closest language to proper latin out of all latin languages??

anyway, latin originated from the latin languages of the world (Italian, Spanish and Portuguese). Latino/Latina would b to descibe the language or origin of the language, or the person, depending what you are talking about.

Answer 6

It means latin. Most european languages are based on latin (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese). Spanish is the closest language to the original latin, Latino or latina is a person that speaks that language.

English is derived from german and is usually grouped as anglo.

Answer 7

Spanish, one of the 'romance' languages that came from Latin.
English doesn't originate from Latin, it is a Germanic language; but is related as both are members (sub-groups) of the Indo-European language family. English 'borrowed' many French/Norman words, which are 'romance' languages originating from Latin.

Answer 8

Latin America
And yes English, Spanish, Romanian, Portugeese, and Italian are all from Latin But they already had names Latin America was speaking some different language and thats that.

Answer 9

Really old English originated from Germamic roots, but when William of Normany conquered England, he brought over the French language and the two mixed to for modern english

Answer 10

the english language envolved from many differnt languages. latin was one of them. these words are actually not related to the latin language it is more towards the spanish language. also a ip that you might not have known is that noone speaks any language the proper way . escpecially sanish people.