a person, especially one who is living in the US, who comes from Latin America, or whose family came from there（尤指居住在美国的）拉丁美洲人，拉丁美洲人后裔 compare ChicanoTopics People in societyc2Word OriginLatin American Spanish, probably a special use of Spanish latino, from Latin Latinus ‘of Latium’, an ancient region of west central Italy settled during the earlier part of the 1st millennium BCE.