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A Latino is a person of Latin American heritage, or of the Latin American culture. The feminine form of the word is "Latina". "Latino" is a shortened form of the Spanish word for a Latin American individual, "latinoamericano."In Italy, the term is sometimes used to denote a person from the Mezzogiorno, the region of the country located generally south of Rome, since in the Middle Ages this region had considerably less Celtic and Germanic influences than northern Italy; one example of this usage was those made by Dante in the Divine Comedy ( Inferno, Canto XXII, line 65, and Canto XXIX, lines 90 and 92).
1 Related terms
- Acadian
- Afro-latino
- Boricua
- Cajun
- Chicano
- Gallic
- Hispanic AmericaHispanic America refers to those parts of the Americas inhabited by Spanish-speaking peoples. Hispanic America includes countries in North America, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. The Hispanic American countries, taking the term in its
- Hispanic American
- LusitanicLusitanic is a word which refers to the shared linguistic and cultural traditions of the Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) nations of Portugal, Brazil, Galicia, Macau, East Timor, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe and Guinea Bissau.
- QuébécoisIn Canadian English, a Quebecois is a native or resident of the province of Quebec, Canada, especially a French-speaking one. The term may also refer to Quebec French or to Quebecers of French-Canadian descent. As an adjective, it refers to Quebec's franc
2 See also
- Latin rapLatin rap is not a homogeneous musical style but rather a term that covers all rap by Latinos. The first bilingual (" Spanglish") rappers were a group from Bronx, New York by the name of Mean Machine. They put out the very first bilingual rap song in 1981
- List of U.S. cities with Hispanic majority populationsThe following is a partial list of United States cities and towns in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Hispanic or Latino, according to data from the 2000 Census. This list does not include cities such as Los Angeles, California in which, a
