negroid

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

negro +‎ -oid

Adjective[edit]

negroid (comparative more negroid, superlative most negroid)

  1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) Pertaining to a racial classification of humanity including people indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa and their diaspora in other parts of the world.
    • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
      They were human and yet not human. I should say that they were a little higher in the scale of evolution than Ahm, possibly occupying a place of evolution between that of the Neanderthal man and what is known as the Grimaldi race. Their features were distinctly negroid, though their skins were white. A considerable portion of both torso and limbs were covered with short hair, and their physical proportions were in many aspects apelike, though not so much so as were Ahm's. They carried themselves in a more erect position, although their arms were considerably longer than those of the Neanderthal man. As I watched them, I saw that they possessed a language, that they had knowledge of fire and that they carried besides the wooden club of Ahm, a thing which resembled a crude stone hatchet. Evidently they were very low in the scale of humanity, but they were a step upward from those I had previously seen in Caspak.

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Noun[edit]

negroid (plural negroids)

  1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) A person with characteristics of Africans, particularly coiled hair and dark skin.

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French négroïde. By surface analysis, negru +‎ -oid.

Noun[edit]

negroid m (plural negroizi)

  1. negroid

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

neger +‎ -oid

Adjective[edit]

negroid (not comparable)

  1. (especially anthropology, dated, offensive) negroid

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Inflection of negroid
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular negroid
Neuter singular negroit
Plural negroida
Masculine plural3 negroide
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 negroide
All negroida
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

Noun[edit]

negroid c

  1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) a negroid

Declension[edit]

Declension of negroid 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative negroid negroiden negroider negroiderna
Genitive negroids negroidens negroiders negroidernas

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