Latin

Originally, the word Latin it was used to talk about to a town that lived in , who they conquered (at that time into the hands of ) in the year 509 adC. was the language spoken by this town.

Later, it was used to talk about to the old Roman citizens who descendian of the Latin town.

At the moment the word Latin it has different uses:

1. In order to talk about to those towns that speak a language derived from (): , , , , , and all those countries that were founded by these kingdoms on the time of the colonization.

2. uses it to talk about to South Americans or Central American (and also to , whose country is in North America). Depending on the context, this term can entail connotations xenófobas, but generally it is accepted and used. The Latins are associated to the countries of Hispanic speech and even in some cases to those of Portuguese speech. All the countries of center and South America were conquered and colonized by Spanish empire or Portuguese, and since these kingdoms are of Latin origin, it is denominated Latin American to these countries.

3. In Italy, the term is used sometimes to denote a person of Mezzogiorno, the region of the country located to the south of Rome generally, since in the Average Age this region had influences considerably less germanic célticas and than Italy of the North; an example of this use is the one that made Dante in Divine Comedy (Inferno, Song XXII, line 65, and Song XXIX, lines 90 and 92).