Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A person of black African ancestry. · A slave, especially one of African ancestry.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryRelating to a black ethnicity. · Black or dark brown in color.
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. Compare nigrescence.
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