nigro

nigro (plural nigroes or nigros)

1. Obsolete spelling of negro.
   • 1640, William Lithgow, “The Sixt Part”, in The Totall Diſcourſe, Of the rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene yeares Travailes from Scotland, to the moſt famous Kingdomes in Europe, Aſia, and Affrica […], London: I. Okes, page 249:

     As we returned to our own Convent, they brought us to Mount Moriah, and ſhewed us the place where Abraham offered up Iſaac, which is in the cuſtody of Nigroes or Æthiopians: to whom each of us payed ten Madins of Braſſe, the common coine of Ieruſalem, for our going in to that place.

• IPA^(key): /ˈniɡro/

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• Rhymes: -iɡro
• Syllabification: ni‧gro

nigro (accusative singular nigron, plural nigroj, accusative plural nigrojn)

1. the color black

   nigro:  

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

From niger (“black”) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix).

nigrō (present infinitive nigrāre, perfect active nigrāvī, supine nigrātum); first conjugation

1. to be black

   Synonym: nigreō

   • Lucretius, De rerum natura, II.733

     ea, quae nigrant nigro de semine nata.

     things which are black are born of black seed.

2. to make black; to darken

   Synonym: nigrēscō

nigrō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of niger

• “nigro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nigro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nigro”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.