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English

Etymology

Perhaps from French nègre, from Spanish negro; or perhaps a variant of nigger.

Noun

neger (plural negers)

1. (rare) Synonym of nigger [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1700, ‘The Saint Turn'd Sinner’ (ballad):

     The Parson still more eager, / Than lustful Turk or Neger, / Took up her lower Garment, / And said there was no harm in't, / According to the Text.

Anagrams

• Egner, Geren, Green, Green., genre, green, regen

Danish

Etymology

From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ne?j?]

Noun

neger c (singular definite negeren, plural indefinite negre)

1. (derogatory, now offensive) a dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent
2. a ghostwriter

Declension

or

Usage notes

The term neger is not quite as offensive as English nigger, but is now generally considered offensive by most people; in its place, the term sort (“black”) is preferred.

Synonyms

• (dark-skinned, derogatory): nigger, abekat
• (dark-skinned, neutral): sort, farvet, afrikaner, mørkhudet (“dark skinned”)
• (ghostwriter): ghostwriter

Further reading

• neger on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

From earlier negro (“black person”) or from French nègre (“black person”), from Spanish negro (“black person”), from Latin niger (“black”), of uncertain origin but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts (“night”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ne?.??r/
• Hyphenation: ne?ger
• Rhymes: -e???r

Noun

neger m (plural negers, diminutive negertje n, feminine negerin)

1. (colloquial, possibly offensive) a black person, a Negro (male or of unspecified gender)

Usage notes

• For many speakers in Belgium and the Netherlands it is a neutral albeit mainly colloquial way to refer to someone with a dark skin colour. Historically, the word was also used in formal registers, including in newspapers and literary works, but such use has become rare by the early 21st century.
• In Suriname, the word is a derogatory term, except when used in the compounds bosneger and stadsneger.
• In the Benelux, since about 2010, neger is increasingly considered to be hurtful, condescending and/or discriminatory, especially by black people, due to the offensiveness of the etymologically related English nigger and Negro.
• There is evidence that at least some black speakers have reappropriated the word.
• The synonym zwarte or zwarte persoon/man/vrouw can be used as a neutral alternative in all geographies and circumstances. There is also some use of the neologisms Afro-Nederlander, Afro-Belg and Afro-Vlaming, which are neutral alternatives in all circumstances, but can only be used for respectively Dutch people, Belgians and Flemings with African roots.

Synonyms

• zwarte

Derived terms

• bosneger
• dobberneger
• excuusneger
• negeren
• negerin
• negerslaaf
• negerstam
• negerzoen
• nepneger
• stadsneger

Related terms

• negroïde

Descendants

• Afrikaans: neger

References

Anagrams

• enger
• genre
• regen

German

Adjective

neger

1. (Austria, colloquial, dated, possibly offensive) broke, bankrupt

See also

• Neger
• Negerant

Latin

Verb

neger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of neg?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

Noun

neger m (definite singular negeren, indefinite plural negere or negre or negrer, definite plural negerne or negrene)

1. a Negro (sometimes derogatory and offensive)

References

• “neger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

Noun

neger m (definite singular negeren, indefinite plural negrar, definite plural negrane)

1. a Negro (sometimes derogatory and offensive)

References

• “neger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From French nègre, from Spanish negro, from Latin niger (“black”).

Noun

neger c

1. (derogatory, now offensive) a negro, a black person

Declension

Usage notes

• The word, potentially having derogatory connotations, has been avoided since the 1960s, primarily in favor of svart (“black”) and afrikan (“African”).
• The pluralization with -ar, although attested as early as 1756, less common and omitted from several dictionaries.

Synonyms

• blåman
• svarting

Derived terms

• negerboll
• negerkyss
• negerslav
• blåneger

References

Anagrams

• gener, genre, green

English

Etymology

From the name of the Niger River, from Latin Nigris. See further etymology at Niger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?d???(?)/

Noun

niger (uncountable)

1. An Ethiopian herb, Guizotia abyssinica, grown for its seed and edible oil.

   Synonyms: noog, noug, nug

References

• “Niger, n.2.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2003

Anagrams

• Grein, Negri, Reign, nigre, re-nig, reign, renig, ringe

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts (“night”). Cognate of Umbrian niru (accusative case) possibly "dark, black".

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ni.?er/, [?n???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ni.d??er/, [?ni?d???r]

Adjective

niger (feminine nigra, neuter nigrum, superlative nigerrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. wan, shining black (as opposed to ?ter, dull black)

   Nigrum in candida vertere.

   To turn black into white.

2. bad; evil; ill-omened

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Synonyms

• (black): fuscus

Antonyms

• (shining white): candidus

Derived terms

• nigellus
• nigritia
• subniger

Descendants

See also

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English nigger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nî?er/
• Hyphenation: ni?ger

Noun

n?ger m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (slang, derogatory) nigger

Declension

Synonyms

• cr?nac

References

• “niger” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Verb

niger

1. present of niga

Anagrams

• Inger, inger, regin, ringe