/ˈniɡɹoʊ/, /ˈnɪɡɹoʊ/, /ˈnɪɡɹə/
OriginBorrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”). Doublet of noir.
- archaicA slave, especially one of African ancestry.
“We don't want your Negroes, or your horses, or your lands, or any thing you have, but we do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and if it involved ”
Formsnegroes(plural) · negros(plural)