negritude

See also: négritude

English

Etymology

From French négritude (coined by Aimé Césaire), from nègre (“Negro”) + -itude.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛɡɹɪtjuːd/

Noun

negritude (countable and uncountable, plural negritudes)

1. The fact of being of black African descent, especially a conscious pride in the values, cultural identity etc. of African heritage; blackness. [from 20th c.]
   • 1969 May, Richard A. Long, “Perspective: Negritude”, in Black World/Negro Digest, Johnson Publishing, page 11:

     Negritude is not wearing turbans and fezzes, though these may be quite alluring.

   • 1976, Dorothy S. Blair, African literature in French: a history of creative writing in French from west and equatorial Africa, CUP Archive, →ISBN, page 144:

     Long before Negritude had become a war-cry among the Black intellectuals of the Left Bank, Caribbean writers had been composing verses in French that were purely derivative, evoking the Parnassian and neo-Romantic influences of the end of the last century.

   • 2005, Gaurav Gajanan Desai, Supriya Nair, Postcolonialisms: an anthology of cultural theory and criticism, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 185:

     In order to explain this morality in action of negritude, I must go back a little.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 91:

     Another important thing about “CLR,” as he was known in our little movement, was his disdainful opposition to any Third World fetishism or half-baked negritude.

Translations

Translations

• Esperanto: negreco
• French: négritude (fr)
• Italian: negritudine (it) f
• Portuguese: negritude (pt)
• Romanian: negritudine f
• Spanish: negritud (es) f

Portuguese

Etymology

From French négritude. Equivalent to negro +‎ -itude.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ne.ɡɾiˈtu.d͡ʒi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ne.ɡɾiˈtu.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ne.ɡɾiˈtu.de/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nɨ.ɡɾiˈtu.dɨ/ [nɨ.ɣɾiˈtu.ðɨ]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ud͡ʒi, (Portugal) -udɨ
• Hyphenation: ne‧gri‧tu‧de

Noun

negritude f (plural negritudes)

1. negritude (the characteristic of being of black African descent)
2. blackness (the characteristic of being black in colour)

Related terms

• negro

Further reading

• “negritude”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024