negro
Meaning
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- Relating to a black ethnicity.
- Black or dark brown in color.
Synonyms
black person
black slave
Black person
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈniɡɹoʊ/
Etymology
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.
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