negro

Meanings

Adjective

• Relating to a black ethnicity.
• Black or dark brown in color.

Noun

• A person of Black African ancestry.

Related

Similar words

• blackamoor
• black, Black
• African-American

Narrower meaning words

• Afro-American
• African-American
• negress / Negress

Broader meaning words

• colored
• [[colored person]]
• person of color

Origin

• Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro, from Latin nigrum, masculine accusative case of niger, of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. noir.