What does Latino mean?

Question

I have heard spanish, mexican, and hispanic. Is Latino the same or different?

Answer 1

All those descriptions are the same. A Latino or Latina is a person of Spanish decent.

Answer 2

Latinos came from South American countries and other North American countries colonized by Europe.They are called Latinos because the languages they speak like Spanish,Portugese etc. are developed from Latin.

Answer 3

From or of Latin American descent. Latino is masculine. Latina is feminine. Basically anywhere in Latin America where Portuguese or Spanish is spoken (although there is some English and French influence in Central America as well).

Answer 4

Latino means: 1. Of LATIN origin 2. Of or relating to the languages that developed from Latin, or to the peoples that speak them. 3.In the United States, the term "Latino" refers loosely to any person having Latin American background and living in the U.S, and is a synonym with "Hispanic". It is typically contrasted with Anglo-American and (English-speaking) African-American. The term "Latino" may have racial connotations which are absent in Latin America.

I hope this answers your question :)

Answer 5

"latinos" are all people from south or central america that have spanish or portughese as their first language. those 2 languages are of latin origin, so that's were the name "latino comes from". note that there are a lot of people with european roots that speak one of the latin-based languages (italian, french, spanish, portughese, romanian), still they are not called "latinos" beacuse they are not of south-central-american descent.

Answer 6

They come from Latin american countries where some connection by colonisation happened involving the europeans. Europeans screwed their native women and a mixed race was born. They are latinos

Answer 7

It is mostly used to refer to people of some sort of Spanish descent based on the grounds that the speak one of the "Latin Languages" - other languages that have there roots in latin being Italian, Portugese, French etc

Answer 8

technicaly most meditrainan europiean languages crom from a latin base as well as english. but latino is ment for mexico, central and south america and the carabiean. i dont think it counts for spain though but i could be wrong

Answer 9

Well
Lation Is The People who speaks Latin Language
and Spanish is very close to it
That is my Opinion
Peace

Answer 10

latin american is different location some what different dialect of espanol.. like cuba and columbia similar language not all the same mexico and spanish in spain