nigro
See also: Nigro
English
Noun
nigro
- (vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur, derogatory) a black person
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Noun
nigro (accusative singular nigron, plural nigroj, accusative plural nigrojn)
- Template:colorbox the color black
Related terms
See also
blanka | griza | nigra |
ruĝa; karmezina | oranĝokolora; oranĝkolora; oranĝo; bruna | flava; kremkolora |
limekolora | verda | |
cejanblua; turkisa | lazura | blua |
violkolora; viola; indiga | magenta; purpura | rozokolora |
Latin
Etymology 1
From niger (“black”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Verb
nigrō (present infinitive nigrāre, perfect active nigrāvī, supine nigrātum); first conjugation
- I am black
- Lucretius, De rerum natura, II.733
- ea, quae nigrant nigro de semine nata.
- things which are black are born of black seed.
- ea, quae nigrant nigro de semine nata.
- Lucretius, De rerum natura, II.733
- I make black, darken
Conjugation
Etymology 2
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) nigrō
References
- “nigro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nigro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nigro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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