negroid

negroid

See also: Negroid

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From negro + -oid.

    Adjective

    negroid (comparative more negroid, superlative most negroid)

    1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) Pertaining to a racial classification of humanity including people indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa and their diaspora in other parts of the world.
      • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
        They were human and yet not human. I should say that they were a little higher in the scale of evolution than Ahm, possibly occupying a place of evolution between that of the Neanderthal man and what is known as the Grimaldi race. Their features were distinctly negroid, though their skins were white. A considerable portion of both torso and limbs were covered with short hair, and their physical proportions were in many aspects apelike, though not so much so as were Ahm's. They carried themselves in a more erect position, although their arms were considerably longer than those of the Neanderthal man. As I watched them, I saw that they possessed a language, that they had knowledge of fire and that they carried besides the wooden club of Ahm, a thing which resembled a crude stone hatchet. Evidently they were very low in the scale of humanity, but they were a step upward from those I had previously seen in Caspak.

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    Noun

    negroid (plural negroids)

    1. (anthropology, dated, offensive, ethnic slur) A person with characteristics of Africans, particularly coiled hair and dark skin.

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    Romanian

    Etymology

    Borrowed from French négroïde. By surface analysis, negru +‎ -oid.

    Noun

    negroid m (plural negroizi)

    1. negroid

    Declension

    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative negroid negroidul negroizi negroizii
    genitive-dative negroid negroidului negroizi negroizilor
    vocative negroidule negroizilor

    Swedish

    Etymology

    neger +‎ -oid

    Adjective

    negroid (not comparable)

    1. (especially anthropology, dated, offensive) negroid

    Declension

    Inflection of negroid
    Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
    common singular negroid
    neuter singular negroit
    plural negroida
    masculine plural2 negroide
    Definite positive comparative superlative
    masculine singular3 negroide
    all negroida

    1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
    2 Dated or archaic.
    3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

    Noun

    negroid c

    1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) a negroid

    Declension

    Declension of negroid
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite negroid negroids
    definite negroiden negroidens
    plural indefinite negroider negroiders
    definite negroiderna negroidernas

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