niger

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

niger (uncountable)

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

   Synonyms: noog, noug, nug

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

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

• nigrus

Uncertain origin,^[1] but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare, naked”) if this root is assumed also to be the source of *nókʷts (“night”) (Latin nox), thus “black” would attest the intermediate meaning between “bare” and “night”.^[2] Possibly cognate with Umbrian niru (“(possibly) dark, black”),^[3] though this form (thought to be accusative singular) is not mentioned in De Vaan.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnɪ.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈniː.d͡ʒer]

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

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

   Nigrum in candida vertere.

   To turn black into white.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:niger.
2. bad; evil; ill-omened

• Widely used as a specific epithet.

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

• (black): fuscus

• (antonym(s) of “shining white”): candidus

• Buchi, Éva; Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–), “*/ˈnɪɡr-u/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.

• “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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Borrowed from English nigger.

• IPA^(key): /nîɡer/
• Hyphenation: ni‧ger

nȉger m inan (Cyrillic spelling ни̏гер)

1. (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) nigger

   Synonym: cr̀nac

• “niger”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

niger

1. present of niga

• Inger, inger, regin, ringe