latinidad

English

Alternative forms

• Latinidad

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish latinidad, from Latin Latīnitās. Doublet of Latinity.

Noun

latinidad (uncountable)

1. The constellation of attributes common to many Latin American cultures and peoples.
   • 2005, Laura C. Valdez-Pagliaro, Writing Latinidad: Mexican Latino and Latina writers contextualizing language, narrative, and culture, page 2:

     It has also been described as a circulation of discourses that displace centers of power that tend to essentialize or fetishize latinidad.

   • 2008, Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Roncamos Porque Podemos": Racialization, Redemption, and Mascu-latinidad, →ISBN:

     In my attempt to better understand Latino masculinities I have developed a framework that combines latinidad and gender.

   • 2012, Ramon Rivera-Servera, Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics, →ISBN, page 96:

     As the first epigraph to this chapter suggests, Esperanza's response insisted on queer Latina/o ownership of the cultural and political legacy of latinidad and advocated for its central role in figuring queer lives and communities.

   • 2015, Samuel K. Byrd, The Sounds of Latinidad, →ISBN:

     Drawing on numerous instances in which distinct genre performances butted against one another, this chapter analyzes how musicians justified these boundaries as necessary for distinguishing between diverse strains of latinidad, but also a trend toward musicians collaborating across genre in an attempt to construct a pan-Latino vision of belonging to the city.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Latīnitātem, equivalent to latino +‎ -idad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /latiniˈdad/ [la.t̪i.niˈð̞að̞]
• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: la‧ti‧ni‧dad

Noun

latinidad f (plural latinidades)

1. Latino-ness, Latino culture, latinidad
   • 2015 July 24, “El triunfo de las voces de mujer”, in El País‎^[1]:

     La latinidad viene hoy mismo por la parte del colombiano Juanes, que poca presentación necesita salvo poner en valor el lugar en el que va a cantar, que no es otro que el Teatro Real, pero sobre todo por el Charco Festival, que se incluye hoy mismo dentro de otro festival: Cultura Inquieta.

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2. Latinity

Related terms

• latino

Further reading

• “latinidad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10