niger
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnaɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
Noun
niger (uncountable)
- An Ethiopian herb, Guizotia abyssinica, grown for its seed and edible oil.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain origin,[1] but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).[2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈni.ɡer/, [ˈnɪ.ɡɛr]
Adjective
niger (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
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
- (black): fuscus
Antonyms
- (shining white): candidus
Derived terms
Descendants
- Aragonese: negro
- Aromanian: negru
- Asturian: negru, ñegru, nigru, ñiegru
- Catalan: negre
- Dalmatian: niar
- Emilian: naigher
- English: negro (via Spanish and Portuguese), nigger, nigga (via Spanish)
- Extremaduran: negru
- Franco-Provençal: nêr
- French: nègre (via Spanish), noir
- Friulian: neri
- Galician: negro
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: negru
- Ido: nigra
- Istriot: nìgro, nìgaro
- Istro-Romanian: negru
- Italian: negro, nero
- Norman: nièr
- Karipúna Creole French: nué, nég
- Ladin: neigher
- Leonese: negru
- Ligurian: neigro
- Lombard: négar, neghér, neir, néiru
- Megleno-Romanian: negru
- Middle French: noir
- Mirandese: negro
- Mozarabic: نَاغْرُ (négro)
- Neapolitan: niro
- Occitan: negre, ner, nèir
- Old French: noir
- Old Occitan: ner, neir, negre
- Old Portuguese: negro
- Piedmontese: neir, négher
- Portuguese: negro, nego
- Romanian: negru
- Romansch: nair, neir, negher
- Russian: негр (negr)
- Sardinian: négru, niédhu, nighedhu
- Sicilian: nìuru, nìguru, nigru, niru
- Spanish: negro
- Venetian: nero, negro
- Walloon: noer
References
- niger in Charlton T. Lewis and 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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, 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
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nîɡer/
- Hyphenation: ni‧ger
Noun
nȉger m (Cyrillic spelling ни̏гер)
- (slang, pejorative) nigger
Declension
Synonyms
References
- “niger” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish
Verb
niger
- Present tense of niga.
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