nigro

See also: Nigro

English

Noun

nigro (plural nigroes or nigros)

1. Obsolete spelling of negro.
   • 1640, William Lithgow, “The Sixt Part”, in The Totall Diſcourſe, Of the rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene yeares Travailes from Scotland, to the moſt famous Kingdomes in Europe, Aſia, and Affrica […], London: I. Okes, page 249:

     As we returned to our own Convent, they brought us to Mount Moriah, and ſhewed us the place where Abraham offered up Iſaac, which is in the cuſtody of Nigroes or Æthiopians: to whom each of us payed ten Madins of Braſſe, the common coine of Ieruſalem, for our going in to that place.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈniɡro/

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• Rhymes: -iɡro

Noun

nigro (accusative singular nigron, plural nigroj, accusative plural nigrojn)

1. the color black

   nigro:  

Related terms

• negro (“Negro”)
• nigra (“black”)
• nigri (“to be black”)

 

See also

Colors in Esperanto · koloroj (layout · text)

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

1. to be black
   • Lucretius, De rerum natura, II.733

     ea, quae nigrant nigro de semine nata.

     things which are black are born of black seed.

2. to make black, darken

Conjugation

Conjugation of nigrō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	nigrō	nigrās	nigrat	nigrāmus	nigrātis	nigrant
	imperfect	nigrābam	nigrābās	nigrābat	nigrābāmus	nigrābātis	nigrābant
	future	nigrābō	nigrābis	nigrābit	nigrābimus	nigrābitis	nigrābunt
	perfect	nigrāvī	nigrāvistī	nigrāvit	nigrāvimus	nigrāvistis	nigrāvērunt, nigrāvēre
	pluperfect	nigrāveram	nigrāverās	nigrāverat	nigrāverāmus	nigrāverātis	nigrāverant
	future perfect	nigrāverō	nigrāveris	nigrāverit	nigrāverimus	nigrāveritis	nigrāverint
passive	present	nigror	nigrāris, nigrāre	nigrātur	nigrāmur	nigrāminī	nigrantur
	imperfect	nigrābar	nigrābāris, nigrābāre	nigrābātur	nigrābāmur	nigrābāminī	nigrābantur
	future	nigrābor	nigrāberis, nigrābere	nigrābitur	nigrābimur	nigrābiminī	nigrābuntur
	perfect	nigrātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	nigrātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	nigrātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	nigrem	nigrēs	nigret	nigrēmus	nigrētis	nigrent
	imperfect	nigrārem	nigrārēs	nigrāret	nigrārēmus	nigrārētis	nigrārent
	perfect	nigrāverim	nigrāverīs	nigrāverit	nigrāverīmus	nigrāverītis	nigrāverint
	pluperfect	nigrāvissem	nigrāvissēs	nigrāvisset	nigrāvissēmus	nigrāvissētis	nigrāvissent
passive	present	nigrer	nigrēris, nigrēre	nigrētur	nigrēmur	nigrēminī	nigrentur
	imperfect	nigrārer	nigrārēris, nigrārēre	nigrārētur	nigrārēmur	nigrārēminī	nigrārentur
	perfect	nigrātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	nigrātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	nigrā	—	—	nigrāte	—
	future	—	nigrātō	nigrātō	—	nigrātōte	nigrantō
passive	present	—	nigrāre	—	—	nigrāminī	—
	future	—	nigrātor	nigrātor	—	—	nigrantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		nigrāre	nigrāvisse	nigrātūrum esse	nigrārī	nigrātum esse	nigrātum īrī
participles		nigrāns	—	nigrātūrus	—	nigrātus	nigrandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		nigrandī	nigrandō	nigrandum	nigrandō	nigrātum	nigrātū

Etymology 2

Adjective

nigrō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of niger

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.