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The demonyms Latino and Latina (its feminine), are defined in English language dictionaries as:

• "a person of Latin-American or Spanish-speaking descent."^[1]
• "A Latin American."^[2]
• "A person of Hispanic, especially Latin-American, descent, often one living in the United States."^[2]
• "a native or inhabitant of Latin America"^[3]
• "a person of Latin-American origin living in the United States"^[3]
• "someone who lives in the US and who comes from or whose family comes from Latin America"^[4]

In the United States, the term is in official use in the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino, defined as "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race."^[5][6]

Official definitions

The term Latino was officially adopted in 1997 by the United States Government in the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino, which replaced the single term "Hispanic".^[7] U.S. official use of the term "Hispanic" has its origins in the 1970 census. The Census Bureau attempted to identify all Hispanics by use of the following criteria in sampled sets:^[8]

• Spanish speakers and persons belonging to a household where Spanish was spoken
• Persons with Spanish heritage by birth location
• Persons who self-identify with Spanish ancestry or descent