negroid
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective
negroid (comparative more negroid, superlative most negroid)
- (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, II, or 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.
Translations
Noun
negroid (plural negroids)
- (anthropology, dated, offensive) A person with characteristics of Africans, particularly coiled hair and dark skin.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World , London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "Round-headed," he muttered. "Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?"
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
a person with negroid characteristics
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French négroïde. By surface analysis, negru + -oid.
Noun
negroid m (plural negroizi)
Declension
Declension of negroid
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) negroid | negroidul | (niște) negroizi | negroizii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) negroid | negroidului | (unor) negroizi | negroizilor |
| vocative | negroidule | negroizilor | ||
Swedish
Etymology
Adjective
negroid (not comparable)
- (especially anthropology, dated, offensive) negroid
Declension
| Inflection of negroid | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | negroid | — | — |
| Neuter singular | negroit | — | — |
| Plural | negroida | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | negroide | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | negroide | — | — |
| All | negroida | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Noun
negroid c
- (anthropology, dated, offensive) a negroid
Declension
| Declension of negroid | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | negroid | negroiden | negroider | negroiderna |
| Genitive | negroids | negroidens | negroiders | negroidernas |