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Latin American countries (green) in the Americas. Latin America (Spanish: América Latina or Latinoamérica; Portuguese: América Latina; French: Amérique latine) is the region of the Americas where Romance languages (i.e., those derived from Latin)—particularly Spanish and Portuguese, as well as French—are primarily spoken.
The terms Latino and Latina are loan words from Italy and are ultimately from ancient Rome. In English, the term Latino is a condensed form of "latinoamericano", the Spanish term for a Latin American, or someone who comes from Latin America. The term Latino has developed a number of definitions.
Ardao wrote about this subject in his book Génesis de la idea y el nombre de América latina (Genesis of the Idea and the Name of Latin America, 1980), [12] and Miguel Rojas Mix in his article "Bilbao y el hallazgo de América latina: Unión continental, socialista y libertaria" (Bilbao and the Finding of Latin America: a Continental ...
The terms Latino and Latina are loan words from Italy and originated in Ancient Rome. The term Latin America was coined in France in the mid-19th century as Amérique latine, during the time of the Second French intervention in Mexico. Scholar Juan Francisco Martinez writes that "France began talking about Latin America during the rule of ...
Spicy sex object, invisible servant or unruly troublemaker: These stereotypes about Latinas didn't describe the women who surrounded Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, 39, who was born in Nicaragua ...
Latinx is a term for a group identity used to describe individuals in the United States who have Latin American roots. [7] [8] Other names for this social category include Hispanic, Latino, Latina, Latine, and Latin@ (combining the letters "a" and "o" into the character @).
Latino and Latina as a noun refer to people living in the United States and have cultural ties to Latin America. As an adjective , the terms refer to things as having ties with Latin America. The term Hispanic usually includes Spaniards whereas Latino as a noun often does not.
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