ethnic

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.
2. Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.
3. Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
4. (historical) Heathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim.

Noun

1. An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
2. (archaic) A heathen, a pagan.
3. The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.

Concepts

ethnique

païen

culturel

barbare

païenne

sauvage

de souche

Synonymes

ethnical

national

heathen

pagan

heathenish

cultural

folk

people’s

gentile

popular

unchristian

origin stock

aboriginal

neo-pagan

autochthonic

autochthonous

exotic

indigenous

lineage

nationality

philistine

race

tribe

Traductions

etnico

étnico

ethnisch

étnico

ètnic

etnisch

pagão

etnica

عرقي

εθνικός

étnica

Volks-

pagà

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɛθ.nɪk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: ethnik

In summary

From Middle English ethnik, from Latin ethnicus ("pagan", "heathen"), from Ancient Greek ἐθνικός (ethnikós, “of or for a nation, heathen”), from ἔθνος (éthnos, “a company", later "a people or nation, heathens”).