negroid

See also: Negroid

English

Alternative forms

• Negroid

Etymology

From negro +‎ -oid.

Adjective

negroid (comparative more negroid, superlative most negroid)

1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) Pertaining to a racial classification of humanity including people indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa and their diaspora in other parts of the world.
   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

     They were human and yet not human. I should say that they were a little higher in the scale of evolution than Ahm, possibly occupying a place of evolution between that of the Neanderthal man and what is known as the Grimaldi race. Their features were distinctly negroid, though their skins were white. A considerable portion of both torso and limbs were covered with short hair, and their physical proportions were in many aspects apelike, though not so much so as were Ahm's. They carried themselves in a more erect position, although their arms were considerably longer than those of the Neanderthal man. As I watched them, I saw that they possessed a language, that they had knowledge of fire and that they carried besides the wooden club of Ahm, a thing which resembled a crude stone hatchet. Evidently they were very low in the scale of humanity, but they were a step upward from those I had previously seen in Caspak.

Translations

of the negroid race

• French: négroïde (fr)
• German: negrid (de)
• Swedish: negroid (sv)
• Thai: นิกรอยด์ (ní-grɔɔi)

Noun

negroid (plural negroids)

1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) A person with characteristics of Africans, particularly coiled hair and dark skin.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "Round-headed," he muttered. "Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?"

Derived terms

• groid / 'groid

Related terms

• negro
• negress
• Africanoid
• Congoid

Translations

a person with negroid characteristics

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尼格罗人种 (Nígéluó rénzhǒng)

• Finnish: negridi (fi)
• French: négroïde (fr) m or f
• Greek: νεγροειδής (el) m or f (negroeidís)
• Russian: негро́ид (ru) m (negróid)
• Swedish: negroid (sv) c
• Thai: นิกรอยด์ (ní-grɔɔi)

Anagrams

• Doering, Gironde, eroding, groined, ignored, nigredo, redoing

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French négroïde. By surface analysis, negru +‎ -oid.

Noun

negroid m (plural negroizi)

1. negroid

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	negroid	negroidul		negroizi	negroizii
genitive-dative	negroid	negroidului		negroizi	negroizilor
vocative	negroidule			negroizilor

Swedish

Etymology

neger +‎ -oid

Adjective

negroid (not comparable)

1. (especially anthropology, dated, offensive) negroid

Declension

Inflection of negroid

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	negroid	—	—
neuter singular	negroit	—	—
plural	negroida	—	—
masculine plural2	negroide	—	—
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	negroide	—	—
all	negroida	—	—

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Noun

negroid c

1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) a negroid

Declension

Declension of negroid

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	negroid	negroids
	definite	negroiden	negroidens
plural	indefinite	negroider	negroiders
	definite	negroiderna	negroidernas

References

• negroid in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• negroid in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• negroid in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)