Latina

La·ti·na

[luh-tee-nuh, la-]
noun
a woman of Latin-American or Spanish-speaking descent.
Also, la·ti·na.


Origin:
< American Spanish, feminine of latino Latino

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Latina (Italian laˈtiːna) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Former name (until 1947): Littoria a city in W central Italy, in Lazio: built as a planned town in 1932 on reclaimed land of the Pontine Marshes. Pop: 107 898 (2001)

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Latina is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Latino (læˈtiːnəʊ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -nos
(US) an inhabitant of the US who is of Latin American origin
 
La'tina
 
fem n

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