Latinhood

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See also: latinhood

English

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Etymology

From Latin +‎ -hood.

Noun

Latinhood (uncountable)

  1. The state, condition, or status of Latin or of being Latin (in all senses); Latinity.
    • 1978, Current Biography Yearbook, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Being very light-complexioned and speaking English very well, I determined that I was going to assert my 'Latinhood' and grew a moustache and long sideburns at a time when everyone was neatly trimmed."
    • 1991, Iván Boldizsár, The New Hungarian Quarterly:
      The newly discovered Latin connection strengthened the national consciousness of the Rumanians, who successfully employed their Latinhood in their struggles.
    • 1993, Elizabeth Lozano, Tele-visions in the United States: Weaving a Hispanic Textuality:
      The United States is discursively positioned as an extension of America, the Spanish-Americas, so that its "Latinhood" becomes foregrounded (i.e. why not to think of the United States in terms of its Hispanic heritage?) .
    • 2001, Rachel Martin, Listening Up: Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers and Students:
      I have all these people these guiros all these aguacates this prescribed latinhood this Hispaniard name that doesn't agree with English only 5.
    • 2014, Alain Badiou, Creating a Latino Identity in the Nation's Capital:
      [...] from the meditating warriors who held still at the foot of the dunes; in short, from these interior Arabs who constituted us, who relieved and surpassed us, and to whom we owe the Greek baptism of our vulgar Latinhood.