Standard Lemma guide

ladino

name · noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ləˈdiːnəʊ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ləˈdinoʊ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: L AH0 D IY1 N OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A Romance language mainly spoken by Sephardic Jews (Wikipedia), derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish) and Hebrew.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A surname from Spanish.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

noun

Meaning 3

Alternative letter-case form of Ladino (“mestizo”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, countable, uncountable

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A cunningly vicious, wild or unmanageable horse.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Southeastern, US, countable

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Trifolium repens (white clover).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Synonyms: none provided

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6

noun

Meaning 6

A person in Latin America whose culture or ancestry is a mixture of European Spanish and Native American, especially one who speaks Spanish; a mestizo.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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7

noun

Meaning 7

the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Synonyms: Judeo-Spanish

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Spanish

8

noun

Meaning 8

a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mestizo

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul

History

Etymology

From Ladino לאדינו (ladino) (or from Spanish ladino), from Latin Latīnus (“Latin”). Doublet of Ladin and Latin.

Borrowed from Spanish Ladino. This surname is mostly found in Colombia.

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

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

Borrowed from Spanish ladino (“Latinized”).

Across languages

Translations

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: լադինո (ladino) — Romance language
  • Azerbaijani: sefard dili — Romance language
  • Bashkir: сефард теле (sefard tele) — Romance language
  • Bashkir: ладино теле (ladino tele) — Romance language
  • Bashkir: йәһүд-испан теле (yəhüd-ispan tele) — Romance language
  • Bashkir: спаньоль (spanʹolʹ) — Romance language
  • Bashkir: джудезмо (djudezmo) — Romance language
  • Bashkir: хебронео (xebroneo) — Romance language
  • Belarusian: сефа́рдскі (sjefárdski) — Romance language
  • Belarusian: сэфа́рдскі (sefárdski) — Romance language
  • Belarusian: ладзі́на (ladzína) — Romance language
  • Belarusian: лядзі́на (ljadzína) — Romance language
  • Belarusian: джудзе́зма (džudzjézma) — Romance language
  • Belarusian: джудэ́зма (džudézma) — Romance language
  • Belarusian: спаньёль (spanʹjólʹ) — Romance language
  • Chinese Mandarin: 拉迪諾語 /拉迪诺语 (Lādínuòyǔ) — Romance language
  • Esperanto: judhispana lingvo — Romance language
  • Finnish: ladino — Romance language
  • French: ladino — Romance language
  • Hebrew: לדינו (ladino) — Romance language
  • Hebrew: ג׳ודזמו (judézmo) — Romance language
  • Hungarian: ladino — Romance language
  • Irish: Laidínis — Romance language
  • Irish: Laideanóis — Romance language
  • Irish: Laidinis — Romance language
  • Italian: ladino — Romance language
  • Japanese: ラディーノ語 (Radīno-go) — Romance language
  • Ladino: לאדינו (ladino) — Romance language
  • Ladino: Ladino — Romance language
  • Portuguese: ladino — Romance language
  • Russian: сефа́рдский (sefárdskij) — Romance language
  • Russian: лади́но (ladíno) — Romance language
  • Scots: Judaeo-Spaingie — Romance language
  • Spanish: ladino — Romance language
  • Spanish: judeoespañol — Romance language
  • Spanish: sefardí — Romance language
  • Spanish: ladina — Romance language
  • Turkish: Yahudi İspanyolcası — Romance language
  • Turkish: Ladino — Romance language
  • Yiddish: לאַדינאָ (ladino) — Romance language
  • Yiddish: דזשודעזמע (dzhudezme) — Romance language