negridão
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ne.ɡɾiˈdɐ̃w̃/ [ne.ɡɾiˈdɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /nɨ.ɡɾiˈdɐ̃w̃/ [nɨ.ɣɾiˈðɐ̃w̃]
- Hyphenation: ne‧gri‧dão
Noun
negridão f (usually uncountable, plural negridões)
- blackness (the condition of being black in colour, or dark)
- blackness (the condition of being a black, having African ancestry)
Further reading
- “negridão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “negridão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026