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▪ I. ladino1|læˈdiːnəʊ|
[Sp.]
1. A vicious or unmanageable horse, steer, etc.; a stray animal. Also as adj., wild, vicious, cunning.
1863H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons II. iv. 265 The old Indians told us..the turtles were ‘ladino’ (cunning), and would take no notice of the beating a second day. 1891Dialect Notes I. 191 Ladíno, in Spanish, learned, knowing Latin; then crafty, cunning. In Texas as a noun, a vicious, unmanageable horse, full of cunning and tricks. 1929J. F. Dobie Vaquero of Brush Country ii. 14 They were all outlaws, ladinos, wild as bucks, cunning and ready to fight anything that got in front of them... Among them were wrinkled-necked maverick cows and bulls that had never had a loop tossed over their heads. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §916/2 Ladinos, outlaw cattle, unbranded strays.
2. In Central America, a mestizo or a white person. Also attrib. or as adj.
1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 682/2 The inhabitants of Cuba are divided into four classes..; those under servitude, constituting the fourth class, divided into the bozales, those recently brought from Africa,—the ladinos, those imported before the law of 1821 prohibiting the slave trade,—and the criollos, those born on the island. 1902Ibid. XXXII. 395/1 The number of Ladinos (whites and persons of mixed blood) [in Salvador in 1887] was returned at 772,200, and of Indians at 234,648. 1934A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 69 Whites and ladinos were conspicuously absent from the ranks. Ibid., These Quichés and Cakchiquels from the hills are as foreign in the white and ladino capital as Nepalese in the Punjab. Ibid. 70 Ladino housewives stood bargaining at the stalls. 1959Times 17 Jan. 7/7 The basic division in Chiapas is that between Indian and ladino, the ladino being a white or a mestizo, who follows the customs of the patrón and of western civilization. 1973‘F. Clifford’ Amigo, Amigo v. 46 She was dressed ladino style, blouse and skirt, and was lighter skinned than pure Indian.
3. (Usu. with capital initial.) A language based on Old Spanish and written in modified Hebrew characters, used by some Sephardic Jews, esp. in Mediterranean countries. Also attrib. and Comb.
1889in Cent. Dict. 1932C. Roth Hist. Marranos xiii. 324 A few works..were printed..in Ladino (or Spanish in Hebrew characters) in the Levant, at Smyrna or at Salonica. 1948[see Judæo-]. 1949Spectator 4 Nov. 595/2 A dialect of Hebrew-cum-Spanish called Ladino is still spoken by many Sephardic Jews everywhere; it is common at the Holland Park synagogue in London..whose members mostly come from the Middle East. 1959Israel Digest 23 Jan 6/3 Another important project..is the preparation of a Ladino dictionary. 1965Listener 30 Sept. 490/2 He records a meeting with three Ladino-speaking Jews in the railway station in Sofia. 1972O. Sela Bearer Plot xvi. 101 Ashraf and I are both Sephardic. We both speak Ladino which is very close to Spanish.
▪ II. ladino2|ləˈdiːnəʊ|
[It.]
In full, ladino clover. A large fast-growing variety of white clover (Trifolium repens), native to northern Italy and cultivated elsewhere, esp. in the U.S.A., as a fodder crop.
1924A. G. Erith White Clover xii. 139 In Italy white clover is named Trifoglio ladino or Ladino clover. 1931N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. XLII. 83 In many ways the Italian Ladino type seems to be related to the large-leaved New Zealand Wild White No. 1... The New Zealand form is..altogether the more valuable pasture type. 1937Cox & Jackson Crop Managem. & Soil Conservation xxiv. 385 Ladino is a large-growing type of white clover that provides much more pasture per acre and is of value for hay. Ladino is a native of northern Italy and is established in importance in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington and is gaining in importance in New England. 1950Carroll & Krider Swine Production xviii. 367 Ladino clover hay contains 19 per cent protein. 1956Gillespie & Hathaway Textbk. Gen. Agric. viii. 151 Ladino or Giant White Clover, also called Lodi, is Italian in origin and has all the appearance of a giant form of the other white clovers... Its demerit is that it is not frost-hardy and so cannot stand British winters. 1969J. Janick et al. Plant Sci. xix. 381/1 White clover..includes the robust ladino variety from Italy. |