niger
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the name of the Niger River, from Latin Nigris. See further etymology at Niger.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
niger (uncountable)
- An Ethiopian herb, Guizotia abyssinica, grown for its seed and edible oil.
References[edit]
- “Niger, n.2.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2003.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain origin,[1] but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare, naked”) if this root is assumed also to be the source of *nókʷts (“night”) (Latin nox), thus “black” would attest the intermediate meaning between “bare” and “night”.[2] Cognate of Umbrian niru (accusative case) possibly "dark, black".[3]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
niger (feminine nigra, neuter nigrum, superlative nigerrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- wan, shining black (as opposed to āter, dull black)
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:niger.
- Nigrum in candida vertere.
- To turn black into white.
- bad; evil; ill-omened
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | niger | nigra | nigrum | nigrī | nigrae | nigra | |
Genitive | nigrī | nigrae | nigrī | nigrōrum | nigrārum | nigrōrum | |
Dative | nigrō | nigrō | nigrīs | ||||
Accusative | nigrum | nigram | nigrum | nigrōs | nigrās | nigra | |
Ablative | nigrō | nigrā | nigrō | nigrīs | |||
Vocative | niger | nigra | nigrum | nigrī | nigrae | nigra |
Synonyms[edit]
- (black): fuscus
Antonyms[edit]
- (shining white): candidus
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Gallo-Italic:
- Ligurian: neigro
- Lombard: negar, negher
- Piedmontese: neir, négher
- Romagnol: négar, nìgar
- Venetian: nero, negro
Gallo-Romance:
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: negro
- Asturian: negru, ñegru, nigru, ñiegru
- Extremaduran: negru
- Galician: negro
- Leonese: negru
- Mirandese: negro
- Old Portuguese: negro
- Spanish: negro
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Corsican: negru
- Dalmatian: niar
- Emilian: naigher
- Istriot: nìgro, nìgaro
- Italian: negro, nero
- Neapolitan: niro
- Sicilian: nigru, niru, nìuru, nìvuru
Occitano-Romance:
Rhaeto-Romance:
Sardinian:
Vlach:
Constructed languages:
See also[edit]
candidus, albus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus | rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cineraceus, plumbeus, grīseus (ML. or NL.) | āter, niger, piceus |
pūniceus, murrinus, rūfus, ruber, russus, rubrīcus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius | rutilus, armeniacus, auranteus, aurantiacus; fuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx | gilvus, helvus, fulvus, flāvus, croceus, pallidus, lūteus, blondinus (ML.) |
galbus, galbinus, lūridus | viridis | prasinus |
cyaneus | caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), blavus (ML.) | glaucus; līvidus; venetus |
violāceus, ianthinus, balaustīnus (NL.) | ostrīnus, amethystīnus | purpureus, ātropurpūreus, roseus, rosāceus |
References[edit]
- “niger”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “niger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- niger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- “niger”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “niger”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ Watkins, Calvert, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.
- ^ Robert Planta 2011, Grammatik der Oskisch-Umbrischen Dialekts.
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nȉger m (Cyrillic spelling ни̏гер)
Declension[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- “niger” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish[edit]
Verb[edit]
niger
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