a language spoken by some Sephardic Jews, a descendant of medieval Spanish; Judaeo-Spanish
a Spanish-American of mixed descent
Spanish ladino learned, literally ‘Latin’, from Latin latinus: see Latin1. First recorded in Latin America in the 19th cent. in the sense ‘cunning, learned’, later applied to a stray or unruly animal and to a Spanish-speaking person of mixed descent. Sense 1 is an independent formation