ladino Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
    mestizo.
  2. noun the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script
    Judeo-Spanish.

WordNet

La*di"no noun
Etymology
Sp.
Wordforms
plural Ladinos
Definitions
  1. One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge. Am. Cyc.

Webster 1913