interracial

See also: inter-racial

English

Alternative forms

• inter-racial

Etymology

From inter- +‎ racial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntəˈɹeɪʃəl/
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ra‧cial

Adjective

interracial (comparative more interracial, superlative most interracial)

1. Between or among two or more different races.

   Interracial struggle against Europid people is a para-Marxist notion.

   • 1991 June, Ella Taylor, “Identity crises”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     In Spike Lee’s story of interracial romance, Jungle Fever (June), Wesley Snipes plays a young buppie New York architect whose affair with his Italian-American secretary (Annabella Sciorra) threatens his marriage and her relationship to her family.

   • 2005, Heide Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America, page 64:

     Like their American counterparts, German officials frowned on interracial sexual fraternization.

Antonyms

• intraracial

Translations

between or including two or more races

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跨種族／跨种族

• Czech: mezirasový
• Finnish: rotujenvälinen
• French: interracial (fr)
• German: interrassisch
• Hungarian: fajok közötti
• Japanese: 異人種間の (いじんしゅかんの, ijin shukan no)
• Polish: międzyrasowy (pl)
• Portuguese: inter-racial
• Russian: межра́совый (ru) (mežrásovyj)
• Spanish: interracial (es)
• Tatar: расаара (rasaara)

French

Etymology

From inter- +‎ racial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁa.sjal/ ~ /ɛ̃.te.ʁa.sjal/

Adjective

interracial (feminine interraciale, masculine plural interraciaux, feminine plural interraciales)

1. interracial

Further reading

• “interracial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Spanish

Etymology

From inter- +‎ racial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /interaˈθjal/ [ĩn̪.t̪e.raˈθjal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /interaˈsjal/ [ĩn̪.t̪e.raˈsjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: in‧te‧rra‧cial

Adjective

interracial m or f (masculine and feminine plural interraciales)

1. interracial

Further reading

• “interracial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28