leucoderm

English

Alternative forms

• leukoderm

Etymology

From leuco- +‎ -derm.

Pronunciation

• enPR: /ˈlükəˌdərm/, IPA^(key): /ˈluːkəˈdɝm/

Noun

leucoderm (plural leucoderms)

1. A person with white or light skin; a person belonging to a light-skinned race
   • 1894 March 10, G. L. Magruder, C. W. Stiles, “An Extreme Case of Leucoderma in a Negro, with a Comparison of Similar Conditions in Various Animals”, in Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 45, number 10 (whole 1218), New York, N.Y.: William Wood & Company, page 298:

     These characters must, however, have begun as individual variations, and there is no reason to doubt that if systematic breeding experiments were kept up for a sufficiently long period, with albinoes or leucoderms, or if these characters came into play in natural or sexual selection, races of albinoes or leucoderms in the human species could be established.

   • 1924, A[lfred] C[ort] Haddon, The Races of Man and Their Distribution, Cabridge: at the University Press, page 7:

     It is also admitted that these gradations in colour have a protective value; in the case of the melanoderms against the actinic rays of the sun and in that of the leucoderms against cold, since white is the best colour for keeping in the heat of the body.

   • 1942, Edgard Roquete Pinto, “Contributions to the Anthropology of Brazil”, in Proceedings of the Eighth American Scientific Congress, volume II, Washington, D.C., pages 241–242:

     […] I adopted the following terms for every anthropological group: (a) Leucoderms—men of white skin, rather brownish (no. 10-19 of von Luschen’s scale) black hair and wavy, (kymatotrichs) brown or black eyes, medium height, brachycephalian, leptorrhinian. The Brazilian leucoderms present two types of height: 1 ^m,63 and 1 ^m,69.

   • 1955, Impact of Science on Society, pages 146–147:

     Dark-skinned peoples (melanoderms) are, as a rule, more resistant to this parasite than the fair-skinned peoples (leucoderms). […] In the case of malaria, we have already noted the differentiation between the leucoderms and melanoderms.

Translations

leucoderm

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 癜 (zh) (diàn)

• Spanish: leucodermo

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French leucoderme.

Adjective

leucoderm m or n (feminine singular leucodermă, masculine plural leucodermi, feminine and neuter plural leucoderme)

1. leucodermic

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	leucoderm		leucodermă		leucodermi	leucoderme
	definite	leucodermul		leucoderma		leucodermii	leucodermele
genitive- dative	indefinite	leucoderm		leucoderme		leucodermi	leucoderme
	definite	leucodermului		leucodermei		leucodermilor	leucodermelor

References

• leucoderm in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN