negro

an-adj

negro (feminine negra, masculine plural negros, feminine plural negras)

negra (feminine)
negros (masculine plural)
negras (feminine plural)

Akin to Spanish negro, from Latin nigrum.


negro

(offensive, vulgar) a dark-skinned person

(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar) a person of African descent; a black person


negro

Recently, on a wintry Sunday, some 2,500 white Chicago area residents embarked on a strange safari across the city, determined to do what most of them had never done before—visit a Negro home. Eager to purge themselves of ignorance about the city's "other half," they were participants in Interracial Home Visit Day, a "Coffee Klatsch" co-sponsored by local Catholic, Jewish and Protestant groups in an effort to eliminate racial bigotry and hate.

1963 April, “Anti-bias Coffee Klatsch: Windy City Interfaith Project Fights Bigotry with Coffee, Cookies and Conversation”, in Ebony, volume XVIII, number 6, Chicago, Ill.: Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 67:

(dated, offensive) Relating to a black ethnicity.

(dated, now offensive) Black or dark brown in color.

негър

offensive: relating to the black ethnicity

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”). Doublet of noir.


negro

The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle […]

1867, Mayne Reid, Quadrupeds: what they are and where found, page 141:

What Peter said was true but she hated to hear it from a negro and a family negro, too. Not to stand high in the opinion of one's servants was a humiliating a thing as could happen to a Southerner.

1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 675:

There were two negros who were guilty of thieving; he went and had them both shot, and gave notice that he would put all to death who kept disturbing the property of the white people, and kept confusion in their land.

2003, Benjamin Hawkins, Howard Thomas Foster, The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1810, page 259:

His parents had always said that the area he grew up in had been a nice place to live before 'those Negros invaded'.

(dated, now offensive) A person of Black African ancestry.


negro

“Ses centojn da negroj mi ĉe Senegal
Akiris je prezo profita,
Malmola viando, simila al ŝton’,
La membroj — el ŝtalo forĝita.”

1897 June, A. Kofman, “El Heine: La sklavoŝipo”, in Lingvo Internacia, volume 2, numbers 6-7, page 89:

“600 negros at Senegal I acquired at a profitable price, hard meat, like stone, the members—from steel forged.”

eo-head

negro (accusative singular negron, plural negroj, accusative plural negrojn)

negron (accusative singular)
negroj (plural)
negrojn (accusative plural)


negro

O vello leñador, sabio e taimado, observaba a acción distante, [...], atento unicamente a rafar o pan negro na cunca de caldo morno.

1995, Xesús Manuel Valcárcel, O capitán lobo negro:

The old lumberjack, wise and crafty, watched the distant commotion, ..., focused only on crumbling the black bread in the bowl with warm broth.

Matías e mais eu estabamos sentados acarón da lareira, eu cáseque detrás do caldeiro onde se coce a pitanza dos cochos; o cadeiro é grande e negro [...]

Matias and I were seated in front of the fireplace, with me almost behind the cauldron where we prepare the feed for the pigs; the cauldron is big and black ...

Unha princesa enfeitizada que os malos designios e o negro destino converteron en mestra de escola [...]

A cursed princess that was turned into a [mere] school teacher by vile plans and the unfortunate destiny ...

(figurative) sad, unfortunate, ill-fated

From Old Galician-Portuguese negro, from Latin nigrum.


negro

gl-noun

negro m (plural negros, feminine negra, feminine plural negras)

negros (plural)
negra (feminine)
negras (feminine plural)


negro

it-adj

negro (feminine negra, masculine plural negri, feminine plural negre)

negra (feminine)
negri (masculine plural)
negre (feminine plural)

From Latin nigrum. The offensive senses derive from the anglophone usage of Spanish negro.


negro

(now offensive, ethnic slur, now vulgar) nigger


negro

Eliau Anavi ke lo estava mirando d'enfrente se aserko de el i le disho: Dime ombre, deke estas de negra umor ?

1979, Kamelia Shahar, “La verdadera felisidad”, in Aki Yerushalayim, number 1, page 5:

The prophet Elijah, who was watching him from across, approached him and said: Tell me, man, why are you in a bad mood?

Ma estos diyas, la mas grande partida de los filmos negativos estan en una negra situasyon en la umidita de un vyejo apartamento.

2018 November 21, Silvyo OVADYA, “Un fotografo modesto ma korajoso”, in Şalom:

But these days, the majority of the film negatives are in a bad situation in the dampness of an old apartment.

From Old Spanish negro (“black”). Cognate with Spanish negro.


negro

[…] chus negro ca pez.

a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 68 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/172small.gif] facsimile])

Mando o meu manto de broneta negra a Eluira Ffernandez de Uilar

1281, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 133

I bequeath my robe of black brunet cloth to Elvira Fernandez de Vilar

seméllame, fillo, que ora son cõpridos de tj os soños que eu sonaua et as uisiões que uij́a et as coytas grãdes que sofría ẽno coraçõ, que cada día se me fazía negro et triste.

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 467:

it seems to me, my son, that now you have accomplished the dreams I dreamed and the visions I envisioned and the big sorrows I suffered in my heart, that each day was black and sad to me

en negra ora naçí

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 742:

Galician: negro

Portuguese: negro
Papiamentu: negru


negro

Pisando no céu enquanto eles se perguntam
 Como esse negro não cai
 Dizem que o céu é o limite
 Eles se perguntam
 Porque esse negro não cai

2018, “Minotauro de Borges”, performed by Baco Exu do Blues:

Stepping on the sky while they ask
 How this nigga don't fall
 They say the sky is the limit
 They ask themselves
 Why this nigga don't fall

(possibly offensive) black; negro (dark-skinned person)


negro

Cavaleiro negro.

pt-adj

negro (feminine negra, masculine plural negros, feminine plural negras, comparable, comparative mais negro, superlative o mais negro or negríssimo, diminutive negrinho, augmentative negrão)

negra (feminine)
negros (masculine plural)
negras (feminine plural)
mais negro (comparative)
o mais negro (superlative)
negríssimo (superlative)
negrinho (diminutive)
negrão (augmentative)

Papiamentu: negru


negro

black (the color perceived in the absence of light)


negro

a black person; a person of black African descent

a member of any typically dark-skinned people

Es improbable, casi imposible, que haya sido escrito por un negro, al estilo de Belén Esteban, David Beckham y Ana Rosa Quintana.

2016 April 18, “Mario Vaquerizo, fan del 15M y de Federico Jiménez Losantos”, in El Confidencial:

It's unlikely, almost impossible, that it was written by a ghost writer, in the style of Belén Esteban, David Beckham and Ana Rosa Quintana.


negro

black (absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless)

black (of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin)

está negro

(Latin America) (mi ~) my darling, my honey

q

cross-loan with Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">niger</i>

→ English: negro (or via Portuguese), nigro (cross-loan with Latin niger, obsolete), nigra [1900s]

→ French: nègre

→ Dutch: neger

→ English: neger

⇒ English: niger, nigger, nigga (cross-loan with Latin niger)

→ Danish: nigger

→ Dutch: nikker

→ German: Nigger

→ Norwegian: nigger

→ Swedish: nigger

→ German: Neger

→ Norwegian: neger

→ Swedish: neger

→ Russian: негр (negr)

→ French: négro


negro

(colloquial, usually derogatory, potentially offensive) having dark pigmentation of the skin

Borrowed from Spanish negro, from Latin nigrum.


negro

(colloquial, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) one with dark pigmentation of the skin, such as those of African descent with sub-Saharan origin

(archaic, rare) black (the color perceived in the absence of light)

tl-noun

negro (feminine negra, Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜄ᜔ᜇᜓ)