different between ladino vs thief

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??di?n??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l??dino?/

Etymology 1

Spanish ladino (“Latinized; crafty”).

Noun

ladino (countable and uncountable, plural ladinos)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Ladino (“mestizo”)
   • 1879, George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, volume , page 89:

     In the production of the ladino the white element has almost always been represented by the father […]

   • 2006, Charles R. Hale, More Than an Indian, School for Advanced Research on the (?ISBN):

     Yolanda's fluctuation between mestizo and ladino is symptomatic of this analytical dilemma. Her inclination to embrace mestizaje signals a deep process of social change underway, in which critical ladino / mestizo self-making has played [a part...]

   • 2011, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN):

     Differentiated from both mulat(t)o and ladino, mestizo/mestico references specifically the mixing of white and Indian, whether phenotypically (simply in terms of the offspring of mixed intercourse) or culturally, and even linguistically.

2. (US, Southeastern US, countable) A cunningly vicious, wild or unmanagable horse.

Etymology 2

Italian ladino (“Ladin”), because the clover grows in Ladin-speaking areas.

Noun

ladino (countable and uncountable, plural ladinos)

1. Trifolium repens (white clover).

Anagrams

• loadin', onlaid

Finnish

Noun

ladino

1. Ladino (Ibero-Romance language also known as Judaeo-Spanish)
2. Synonym of ladin (a Rhaeto-Romance language)

Declension

Synonyms

• (Ibero-Romance): juutalaisespanja

French

Noun

ladino m (uncountable)

1. Ladino (language)

Italian

Noun

ladino m (uncountable)

1. the Ladin language, a Rhaetian tongue of Northeastern Italy

   Synonym: lingua ladina

Noun

ladino m (plural ladini, feminine ladina)

1. a native or inhabitant of this region, or speaker of this language

Adjective

ladino (feminine ladina, masculine plural ladini, feminine plural ladine)

1. of or pertaining to the language or people

Anagrams

• aldino, nodali

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Either borrowed from Spanish ladino or re-Latinized after Latin latinus. The inherited form from Vulgar Latin is Portuguese ladinho. Doublet of latino, which was a later borrowing.

The sense of "sly" developed from a sense of "learned", in reference to learned people who knew Classical Latin.

Adjective

ladino m (feminine singular ladina, masculine plural ladinos, feminine plural ladinas, comparable)

1. wily; sly; cunning

   Synonyms: finório, matreiro

Etymology 2

Taken from the proper names of the languages.

Noun

ladino m (uncountable)

1. Ladin (Romance language spoken in northeastern Italy)
2. Ladino (Romance language spoken by Sephardi Jews)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?dino/, [la?ð?i.no]
• Rhymes: -ino

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin lat?nus; compare latín, latino, doublets which were borrowed later. Compare also Portuguese ladino (“learned, cultured”). The sense of "astute" or "crafty" developed from medieval times, when the word was used to describe scholars and learned people, who were familiar with Latin and were involved in a process of "Latinization", i.e. using and incorporating learned terms. It was also used as a general designation for Romance speakers in the Middle Ages, as opposed to others speaking different kinds of languages, especially Arabic in the context of Spain/Iberia (compare the name of Ladino, the Sephardic Jewish language of Spain, descended from a form of Old Spanish, as well as the Ladin of northern Italy). The sense of "mestizo" developed in colonial Central America when the term was originally applied to those indigenous people who came to speak only Spanish.

Adjective

ladino (feminine ladina, masculine plural ladinos, feminine plural ladinas)

1. astute, crafty, acute
2. (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama) mestizo

See also

• sagaz
• romance

Noun

ladino m (plural ladinos)

1. a mestizo person

Etymology 2

Taken from the proper names of the languages.

Noun

ladino m (uncountable)

1. the Ladin language of Italy
2. Ladino; the Judeo-Spanish language

Further reading

• “ladino” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

References

English

Alternative forms

• theef

Etymology

From Middle English thef, theef, þef, from Old English þ?of, from Proto-Germanic *þeubaz. Spelling from Northern England, where /e?o/ became [i?] rather than [e?]. (Compare the spelling of deep from Old English deop.)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: th?f, IPA^(key): /?i?f/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?if/
• Rhymes: -i?f

Noun

thief (plural thieves)

1. One who carries out a theft.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:thief
2. One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.
3. (obsolete) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
   • 1640, Joseph Hall, Divine Light

     But hear you , my Worthy Brethren : do not you , where you see a thief in the candle , call presently for an extinguisher

Hypernyms

• (one who carries out a theft): See Thesaurus:criminal

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• thieve

Translations

Anagrams

• feith, theif