diff --git a/docs/topics/loaders.rst b/docs/topics/loaders.rst
index 01de528f0..ad86dba63 100644
--- a/docs/topics/loaders.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/loaders.rst
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ locations, using the :meth:`~ItemLoader.add_xpath` method. This is the
 data that will be assigned to the ``name`` field later.
 
 Afterwards, similar calls are used for ``price`` and ``stock`` fields
-(the later using a CSS selector with the :meth:`~ItemLoader.add_css` method),
+(the latter using a CSS selector with the :meth:`~ItemLoader.add_css` method),
 and finally the ``last_update`` field is populated directly with a literal value
 (``today``) using a different method: :meth:`~ItemLoader.add_value`.