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5-letter words (5 found)

ERGON,GENRO,GONER,GRONE,NEGRO,

4-letter words (11 found)

ERGO,GOER,GONE,GORE,GREN,OGRE,ONER,REGO,RENO,RONE,RONG,

3-letter words (21 found)

EGO,ENG,EON,ERG,ERN,GEN,GEO,GER,GOE,GON,GOR,NEG,NOG,NOR,ONE,ORE,ORG,REG,REN,REO,ROE,

2-letter words (9 found)

EN,ER,GO,NE,NO,OE,ON,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 47 words from negro according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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Definitions and meaning of negro

negro

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.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈniɡɹoʊ/
    • (Southern American English, dated) IPA(key): /ˈnɪɡɹə/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/

Adjective

negro (not comparable)

  1. (dated, offensive) Relating to a black ethnicity.
  2. (dated, now offensive) Black or dark brown in color.

Usage notes

As the primary term for persons of Black African ancestry during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century, negro is both less immediately offensive than various other slurs and more connected with racist pseudoscientific work, which may be perceived as more racist and offensive than the slur itself. W. E. B. Du Bois in particular advocated strenuously for the use of capitalized Negro in preference to colored/coloured, which became less common by the 1920s, but in the United States the word negro now is considered acceptable only in polite historical contexts or in specific proper names such as the United Negro College Fund. Black and black (which replaced negro as part of the Black Power and black pride movements from 1966 onward) or the more recent African-American (from the 1980s) are the preferred alternatives, with neither being categorically preferred in all contexts. As a self-designation, negro was still preferred on average as late as 1968, while black became clearly more common by 1974. Usage in publications followed. See also discussion on this topic at Wikipedia.

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Translations

Noun

negro (plural negroes or negros)

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

Usage notes

See above.

Synonyms

(noun):

  • blackamoor

(adjective and noun):

  • black, Black
  • African-American (nonstandard, US)

Hypernyms

(noun):

  • colored
  • colored person
  • person of color

Hyponyms

(adjective and noun):

  • Afro-American
  • African-American (in the proper sense)
  • negress

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • barro negro
  • mulatto
  • octaroon
  • quadroon

References

Anagrams

  • Egnor, Goren, Groen, Norge, Ogren, Rengo, Rogen, ergon, genro, goner, grone, ornge, reong

Aragonese

Alternative forms

  • niero

Etymology

Akin to Spanish negro, from Latin nigrum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈneɡɾo/
  • Rhymes: -eɡɾo
  • Syllabification: ne‧gro

Adjective

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

  1. black (color)

References

  • “negro”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
  • Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “negro”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈneɡɾo/, [ˈne.ɣ̞ɾo]

Adjective

negro

  1. neuter of negru

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish negro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈneɡɾo/, [ˈn̪iɡ.ɾ̪ɔ]

Noun

negro (feminine negra)

  1. (offensive, vulgar) A dark-skinned person.
  2. (offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar) A person of African descent; a black person.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈneɡro]
  • Rhymes: -eɡro
  • Hyphenation: ne‧gro

Noun

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

  1. (offensive, ethnic slur) a Negro
    Hyponym: negrino

Derived terms

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese negro, from Latin nigrum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈneɣɾʊ]

Adjective

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

  1. black, dark colored
    Synonym: preto
  2. (figurative) sad, unfortunate, ill-fated

Derived terms

Noun

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

  1. black (colour)
  2. black person

Usage notes

This last usage is, a priori, not pejorative; still, periphrases as persoa de cor are usually preferred in formal context, if needed at all.

See also

References

  • “negro” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
  • “negro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “negro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “negro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Noun

negro (plural negros)

  1. black person, usually black man, negro

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Italian

Alternative forms

  • nero

Etymology

From Latin nigrum. The offensive senses derive from Spanish negro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈne.ɡro/
  • Rhymes: -eɡro
  • Hyphenation: né‧gro

Adjective

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

  1. (archaic) black
  2. (now offensive) negro

Noun

negro m (plural negri)

  1. (now offensive, ethnic slur, now vulgar) nigger

Related terms

Anagrams

  • regno, regnò, rogne

Ladino

Etymology

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

Adjective

negro (Latin spelling)

  1. bad
    Synonym: malo

See also

  • preto (“black”)

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin niger (“black”).

Adjective

negro m (plural negri)

  1. Alternative form of négher (black).

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin nigrum.

Pronunciation

  • (Galicia) IPA(key): /ˈne.ɡɾo/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈne.ɡɾʊ/

Adjective

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

  1. black
    • […] chus negro ca pez.
      […] blacker than pitch.
    • 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:
      Mando o meu manto de broneta negra a Eluira Ffernandez de Uilar
      I bequeath my robe of black brunet cloth to Elvira Fernandez de Vilar
    Synonym: preto
  2. (figurative) sad, unfortunate, ill-fated

Descendants

  • Galician: negro
  • Portuguese: negro
    • Papiamentu: negru

See also

References

  • “negro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “negr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese negro, from Latin nigrum.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ne‧gro

Noun

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

  1. black (the darkest colour)
  2. (possibly offensive) black; negro (dark-skinned person)
    Synonyms: (formal) afrodescendente, preto, (Brazil, colloquial) nego

Adjective

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

  1. (somewhat formal) black in colour
    Synonym: preto (colloquial)
  2. black; dark-skinned
    Synonym: preto
  3. (literary) dark (associated with evil)
    Cavaleiro negro. ― Dark knight.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Papiamentu: negru

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin nigrum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈneɡɾo/ [ˈne.ɣ̞ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -eɡɾo
  • Syllabification: ne‧gro

Noun

negro m (plural negros)

  1. black (the color perceived in the absence of light)
    Antonym: blanco

Noun

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

  1. a black person; a person of black African descent
  2. a member of any typically dark-skinned people
  3. ghost writer

Adjective

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

  1. black (absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless)
    Antonym: blanco
  2. black (of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin)
    Synonym: prieto (Louisiana)
  3. dirty
  4. sad
  5. clandestine
    Synonym: clandestino
  6. (Spain) angry
    Synonym: rabioso
    está negro ― he's in a rage
  7. (Latin America) ( mi ~) my darling, my honey
    Synonyms: querido, amado

Derived terms

  • negrillo, negrito (diminutives)

Descendants

  • → 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

See also

Further reading

  • “negro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish negro, from Latin nigrum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈneɡɾo/, [ˈnɛ.ɡɾo]
  • Syllabification: ne‧gro

Adjective

negro (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜄ᜔ᜇᜓ)

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

Noun

negro (feminine negra, Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜄ᜔ᜇᜓ)

  1. (colloquial, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) one with dark pigmentation of the skin, such as those of African descent with sub-Saharan origin
    Synonyms: (slang) nognog, (slang) egoy
  2. (archaic, rare) black (the color perceived in the absence of light)

Usage notes

  • When heard by African Americans visiting or living in the Philippines, the term is often considered offensive due to its derogatory sense in English and associations with the term, nigger, in English, although the term is not used very often due to the meager and sparse population of those of sub-Saharan origin in the Philippines.

Derived terms

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Further reading

  • “negro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin niger.

Adjective

negro

  1. black

Source: wiktionary.org