Negro

See also: negro, négro, and ñegro

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡɹoʊ/
  • (Southern US, dated) IPA^(key): /ˈnɪɡɹə/

Noun

Negro (plural Negroes or Negros)

1. (dated, now usually offensive) Alternative letter-case form of negro.
   • 1953 August 6, Jet‎^[1], volume 4, Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, pages 21-22:

     The rickets were sold to sex-starved who had weird ideas about Negro women.

   • 1963, Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail,

     Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained.

Usage notes

• By some speakers and in some contexts (chiefly historical), the capitalized form Negro is considered more respectful than the more usual negro (as in baseball's Negro Leagues). Both forms, however, are still frequently offensive to present-day speakers.

Derived terms

• antinegroism
• Bush Negro
• Chigro
• magic Negro
• negress
• Negress
• negrette
• Negro-American
• Negrocentric
• negrocentrism
• Negro Felon League
• Negrohood
• Negroness
• Negro nod
• Negrophobe
• Negrophobia
• Negro Question
• New Negro
• New Negro Movement

Proper noun

Negro

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Negro is the 32417^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 676 individuals. Negro is most common among White (74.26%) and Hispanic (22.04%) individuals.

Anagrams

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

Galician

Etymology

From negro, "dark", "black".

Proper noun

Negro m

1. a surname

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “Negro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “Negro” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Tagalog

Etymology

See negro.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈneɡɾo/ [ˈn̪ɛː.ɡɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɡɾo
• Syllabification: Ne‧gro

Noun

Negro (feminine Negra, Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜄ᜔ᜇᜓ) (colloquial, usually derogatory)

1. those of African descent with sub-Saharan origin, especially black Africans or African-Americans
2. person of dark complexion

   Synonym: (slang) Egoy

Related terms

• negra
• Negrito
• negro

Further reading

• “Negro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Anagrams

• Geron