- 1黑人（舊時英語用詞，現多視為不敬）。台灣日常只說「黑人」。
Negro is an old word for a Black person. It came into English from Spanish and Portuguese negro, “black.” For a long time it was the usual English word in the United States; you will still see it in history books, in some organisation names, and in older writing. Used of a person today, it is usually considered offensive, or at least badly out of date. Say Black, or African American when that is the right US term. Though actually, it did not begin as a swear-word — it literally meant the colour black — but history sat on it, and polite English has moved on. A few older institutions kept it in their names, and some older people once used it of themselves; that does not make it a word for a to choose. As an adjective in old texts it meant “Black” in that same dated way.
組成Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain further origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”). It is a doublet of French noir. Compare the rare English word nigrescence (“becoming dark”).
同家族的字
- noirsame Latin word for black; French kept it as noir
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Negroadj/ˈniːɡɹəʊ/
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Pertaining to the panethnic or ethnolinguistic groups associated with the proposed Negro-African superphylum.
- The Negro-African language theory was proposed.
Negroname/ˈniːɡɹəʊ/
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A surname.
negroadj/ˈniɡɹoʊ/
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offensivedatedRelating to a black ethnicity.
- 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.
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offensivedatedBlack or dark brown in color.
negronoun/ˈniɡɹoʊ/
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offensivedatedA person of black African ancestry.
- The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle […]
- What Peter said was true but she hated to hear it from a negro and a family negro, too. Not to stand high in the opinion of one's servants was a humiliating a thing as could happen to a Southerner.
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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 the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。