niger
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See also: Niger
Contents
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- nyjer (US, less common)
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
niger (uncountable)
- An Ethiopian herb, Guizotia abyssinica, grown for its seed and edible oil.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain origin[1], but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
niger m (feminine nigra, neuter nigrum); first/second declension
- shining black (as opposed to ater, dull black)
- Nigrum in candida vertere.
- To turn black into white.
- Nigrum in candida vertere.
- bad; evil; ill-omened
Inflection[edit]
First/second declension, 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 black): candidus
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
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References[edit]
- niger in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- niger in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- niger in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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), Leiden, Boston: Brill
- ^ Watkins, Calvert, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nȉger m (Cyrillic spelling ни̏гер)
Declension[edit]
Declension of niger
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- “niger” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish[edit]
Verb[edit]
niger
- Present tense of niga.
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