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Latin American nations at the Winter Olympics
Latin American nations at the Winter Olympics are countries that compete in the Games. After starting in 1928, they reached a record delegation of 37 athletes in 2026.
Latin American plant pathology societies
Latin American plant pathology societies are professional associations organizing the discipline regionally, led by the Asociación Latinoamericana de Fitopatología (ALF), founded in Lima in 1964.
Latin American Reserve Fund
The Latin American Reserve Fund (FLAR, Fondo Latinoamericano de Reservas) lends to member central banks for balance-of-payments support, founded in 1978 as a regional alternative to the IMF.
Latin American Stadium
Estadio Latinoamericano (Latin American Stadium), formerly Gran Stadium or Estadio del Cerro, is Havana's 1946 baseball park, home of Industriales, capacity about 55,000, host of the 1991 Pan-American Games and 1999 Orioles and 2016 Rays MLB exhibitions.
Latin Americans
Latin Americans: inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean, about 588 million people (2013), over 80 percent urban, largely Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking, with high inequality, one in four on US$6.85/day (2023), and heavy emigration to the United States.
Latin biography
Latin biography is the body of biographical writing composed in Latin at Rome, a Greek-derived genre whose leading authors were Cornelius Nepos, Plutarch, and Suetonius.
Latin bucolic tradition
The Latin bucolic tradition is Latin pastoral poetry of idealized shepherds, founded by Vergil's Eclogues in the 40s BCE and continued by Calpurnius Siculus and Nemesianus.
Latin Casino
Latin Casino: Philadelphia-area nightclub and dinner theater (Walnut Street, then Cherry Hill, NJ, 1960-1978), no gambling despite the name; hosted Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, the Supremes; closed after Atlantic City casinos opened.
Latin Church
The Latin Church, also called the Latin Catholic Church, is the largest portion of the Catholic Church, governed by the pope and following the Roman Rite in liturgy.
Latin conjugation
Latin conjugation (coniugatio): the inflection of Latin verbs across four regular classes (-are, -ere, -ere, -ire) marked for person, number, tense, voice, and mood, built from three stems given by four principal parts, historically systematized from Proto-Indo-European and described from Varro to Priscian.
Latin dance
Latin dance: family of partner and social styles from Latin America and the Caribbean, including salsa, bachata, rumba, samba, and the five competitive International Latin dances.
Latin declension
Latin declension: the inflection of Latin nouns, adjectives, and pronouns for gender, number, and case across six cases and five declensions identified by the genitive singular, descended from an eight-case Indo-European system and later collapsed in Romance.
Latin Empire (Λατινική Αυτοκρατορία)
Latin Empire (Λατινική Αυτοκρατορία), also called Latin Empire of Constantinople: crusader state founded after the Fourth Crusade took Constantinople on 13 April 1204, with Baldwin of Flanders as first emperor; ended 1261 when Nicaea recovered the city.
Latin grammar
Latin grammar: the inflectional system of Latin (five declensions, four conjugations) and its descriptive tradition from Varro, Donatus, and Priscian through medieval parsing grammars to Pinkster's Oxford Latin Syntax.
Latin Grammy Award for Best Banda Album
Latin Grammy Award for Best Banda Album (Mejor Álbum de Música Banda), a Latin Recording Academy honor since 2001 for albums at least 51% new banda recordings; recent winners include Chiquis and Julión Álvarez.
Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist
The Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist honors artists without prominent recognition in the Latin market, first awarded in 2000 to Ibrahim Ferrer and winnable only once.
Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album
The Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album is an annual honor given by the Latin Recording Academy to salsa albums, at least 51 percent new salsa recordings.
Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album
The Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album honors reggaetón, Latin trap, and hip-hop albums, renamed in 2005 when Daddy Yankee won for Barrio Fino.
Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year
The Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year honors a single track's performance and production, awarded annually since 2000; Alejandro Sanz holds the record with eight wins.
Latin Grammy Awards
The Latin Grammy Awards (Latin Grammys) are annual peer-voted honors for Latin music recording, presented by the Latin Recording Academy since 2000 and open to Spanish and Portuguese recordings.
Latin Grammy Awards ceremonies, 2017–2023
The Latin Grammy Awards ceremonies of 2017 to 2023 covered the 18th through 24th editions, opening with "Despacito's" four wins and ending with Karol G and Shakira.
Latin Grammy Hall of Fame
The Latin Grammy Hall of Fame, established by the Latin Recording Academy in 2001, honors recordings of lasting significance released more than 25 years earlier.
Latin Grammy regional Mexican categories
The Latin Grammy regional Mexican categories are six Latin Grammy Awards, numbered 28 through 33, honoring albums and songs in ranchero, mariachi, banda, Tejano, norteño, and contemporary Mexican genres.
Latin hip-hop
Latin hip-hop: rap by Latino and Latin American artists, usually in Spanish or Spanglish; Bronx roots with DJs Disco Wiz and Charlie Chase, pioneers Vico C and Mellow Man Ace, and its place beside reggaeton and Latin trap in urbano.
Latin honors
Latin honors (cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude) are three graduation distinctions devised at Harvard in 1872; criteria vary by institution as fixed GPA cutoffs, class percentiles, or thesis requirements.
Latin hypercube sampling
Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) is a stratified Monte Carlo method, introduced by McKay, Beckman, and Conover in 1979, that stratifies each input dimension to reduce variance in uncertainty analysis.
Latin literature
Latin literature, or literae Latinae, is literature written in Latin from Livius Andronicus's Saturnian Odyssey onward, marked by conscious imitation of Greek models, education-driven rhetoric, and survival through manuscript transmission.
Latin Lover (TV series)
Latin Lover (Amante Latina) is the 2001 Spanish-language erotic telenovela produced by Playboy TV International, Venevisión, and Iguana Producciones, premiered 25 November 2001, filmed in Lima, Peru, released in erotic and broadcast-edit versions, with a Silvia Caballero nude-scene controversy and sequel Latin Lover 2.
Latin Mafia
Latin Mafia is a Mexican trio of De la Rosa brothers, producer Mike and twin vocalists Emilio and Milton, formed in Monterrey in 2020 via TikTok. Known for "Julieta," "Patadas de Ahogado," the debut album Todos los días todo el día (2024), Rimas Entertainment signing, Latin Grammy nominations, and the 2026 Fred again.. mixtape 9 months & 50 hours.
Latin Monetary Union
The Latin Monetary Union was an 1865 coinage convention of France, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland, later joined by Greece, harmonizing coins on the French franc standard.