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(The term itself is derived from "Hispania," which was the Roman Empire's name for the Iberian peninsula.)
"Latino" is Spanish for "Latin"; Latin was the official language of Hispania, and "Latin America" was coined by geographers in the 18 th century to describe the New World colonies of Portugal and Spain.
It took the Romans two centuries to subdue the Iberians, but in the end most of the peninsula was incorporated into their new colony of Hispania.