Latine is a gender-neutral neologism developed as an alternative to the terms Latino, Latina, or Latinx used to identify people of Latin American descent. The term stems from the more popular term Latinx. While Latine is broadly described as a gender-neutral term for Latin Americans, its use is linguistically limited to people from Hispanic America and is exclusionary toward Latin Americans who speak other Romance languages. It cannot function as a gender-neutral term for people from Franco America because Latine is already the feminine form of Latin in French.