negro

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum, masculine accusative case of niger (“black”), of uncertain origin[1], but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).[2]

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈniɡɹoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/

negro (not comparable)

1. (dated, now offensive) Relating to the black ethnicity.
   • 1963 April, “Anti-bias Coffee Klatsch: Windy City Interfaith Project Fights Bigotry with Coffee, Cookies and Conversation”, in Ebony, volume XVIII, number 6, Chicago, Ill.: Johnson Publishing Company, ISSN 0012-9011, page 67:

     Recently, on a wintry Sunday, some 2,500 white Chicago area residents embarked on a strange safari across the city, determined to do what most of them had never done before—visit a Negro home. Eager to purge themselves of ignorance about the city's "other half," they were participants in Interracial Home Visit Day, a "Coffee Klatsch" co-sponsored by local Catholic, Jewish and Protestant groups in an effort to eliminate racial bigotry and hate.

2. (dated, now offensive) Black or dark brown in color.

In the United States of America, the word negro is considered acceptable only in a historical context or in proper names such as the United Negro College Fund. Black, which replaced negro from 1966 onward, or the more recent African-American (from the 1980s), are the preferred alternatives, with neither being categorically preferred as an endonym (self-designation) or by publications.

Before 1966, negro was accepted and in fact the usual endonym – consider The Negro, 1915, by W. E. B. Du Bois – which itself replaced the older colored in the 1920s, particularly under the advocacy of Du Bois (who advocated capitalization as Negro). Following the coinage and rise of Black Power and Black pride in the 1960s, particularly after 1966, the term black became preferred, and negro became offensive; in 1968 negro was still preferred by most as a self-designation, while by 1974 black was preferred; usage by publications followed.[3]

See also discussion at Wikipedia.

negro (plural negroes or negros)

1. (dated) Alternative letter-case form of Negro
   • 1867, Mayne Reid, Quadrupeds: what they are and where found (page 141)

     The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle […]

(noun):

• blackamoor

(adjective and noun):

• black, Black
• African-American (nonstandard, US)

(noun):

• colored
• colored person
• person of color

(adjective and noun):

• Afro-American
• African-American (in the proper sense)
• negress / Negress

• negro yam

• mulatto
• octaroon
• quadroon

• Egnor, Goren, Groen, Norge, Rengo, Rogen, ergon, genro, goner, grone, ornge, reong

negro m sg (feminine singular negra, neuter singular negro, masculine and neuter plural negros, feminine plural negres)

1. black

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “negro”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɡro/
• Rhymes: -eɡro

negro (accusative singular negron, plural negroj, accusative plural negrojn)

1. a Negro
   • 1897 June, A. Kofman, “El Heine: La sklavoŝipo”, in Lingvo Internacia, volume 2, number 6-7, page 89:

     “Ses centojn da negroj mi ĉe Senegal
     Akiris je prezo profita,
     Malmola viando, simila al ŝton’,
     La membroj — el ŝtalo forĝita.”

     “600 negros at Senegal I acquired at a profitable price, hard meat, like stone, the members - from steel forged.”

   Hyponym: negrino

From Old Portuguese negro, from Latin nigrum, accusative of niger.

• IPA^(key): [ˈneɣɾʊ]

negro m (feminine singular negra, masculine plural negros, feminine plural negras)

1. black (colour)

negro (plural negros)

1. black person, usually black man, negro

• nero

From Latin nigrum, accusative form of niger.

• IPA^(key): /ˈne.ɡro/, [ˈn̺eːɡr̺o]
• Hyphenation: né‧gro

negro (feminine singular negra, masculine plural negri, feminine plural negre)

1. (archaic) black
2. (now offensive) negro

negro m (plural negri)

1. (now offensive, ethnic slur, now vulgar) nigger

• regno, regnò, rogne

From Latin nigrum, accusative of niger.

• IPA^(key): /ˈne.ɡɾo/

negro m (plural negros, feminine negra, feminine plural negras)

1. black
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 68 (facsimile):

     […] chus negro ca pez.

     […] blacker than pitch.

   Synonym: preto

• Galician: negro
• Portuguese: negro

From Old Portuguese negro, from Latin nigrum, accusative of niger.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈne.ɡɾu/, [ˈne.ɣɾu]
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈne.ɡɾu/
• Hyphenation: ne‧gro

negro m (plural negros, feminine negra, feminine plural negras)

1. black (the darkest colour)

   Synonym: preto

2. black; negro (dark-skinned person)

   Synonyms: nego (colloquial), preto (often offensive), afrodescendente (formal)

negro m (feminine singular negra, masculine plural negros, feminine plural negras, comparable)

1. black in colour

   Synonym: preto

2. black; dark-skinned

   Synonym: preto (often offensive)

3. (literary) dark (associated with evil)

   Cavaleiro negro. ― Dark knight.

From Latin nigrum, accusative of niger.

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɡɾo/, [ˈneɣɾo]
• Hyphenation: ne‧gro

negro m (plural negros)

1. black (colour)

   Antonym: blanco

2. a black person
3. ghost writer

negro (feminine singular negra, masculine plural negros, feminine plural negras)

1. black (color)

   Antonym: blanco

2. dirty
3. sad
4. clandestine
5. (Spain) angry

• negrillo, negrito (diminutives)

• “negro” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.