nigro

See also: Nigro

English

Noun

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.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈniɡro/

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• Rhymes: -iɡro

Noun

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

1. the color black

   nigro:  

Related terms

• negro (“Negro”)
• nigra (“black”)
• nigri (“to be black”)

See also

Colors in Esperanto · koloroj (layout · text)

blanka	griza	nigra
ruĝa; karmezina	oranĝokolora; oranĝkolora; oranĝo; bruna	flava; kremkolora
limekolora	verda
cejanblua; turkisa	lazura	blua
violkolora; viola; indiga	magenta; purpura	rozokolora

Latin

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

1. to be black
   • 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, darken

Conjugation

   Conjugation of nigrō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	nigrō		nigrās		nigrat		nigrāmus		nigrātis		nigrant
	imperfect	nigrābam		nigrābās		nigrābat		nigrābāmus		nigrābātis		nigrābant
	future	nigrābō		nigrābis		nigrābit		nigrābimus		nigrābitis		nigrābunt
	perfect	nigrāvī		nigrāvistī		nigrāvit		nigrāvimus		nigrāvistis		nigrāvērunt, nigrāvēre
	pluperfect	nigrāveram		nigrāverās		nigrāverat		nigrāverāmus		nigrāverātis		nigrāverant
	future perfect	nigrāverō		nigrāveris		nigrāverit		nigrāverimus		nigrāveritis		nigrāverint
passive	present	nigror		nigrāris, nigrāre		nigrātur		nigrāmur		nigrāminī		nigrantur
	imperfect	nigrābar		nigrābāris, nigrābāre		nigrābātur		nigrābāmur		nigrābāminī		nigrābantur
	future	nigrābor		nigrāberis, nigrābere		nigrābitur		nigrābimur		nigrābiminī		nigrābuntur
	perfect	nigrātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	nigrātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	nigrātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	nigrem		nigrēs		nigret		nigrēmus		nigrētis		nigrent
	imperfect	nigrārem		nigrārēs		nigrāret		nigrārēmus		nigrārētis		nigrārent
	perfect	nigrāverim		nigrāverīs		nigrāverit		nigrāverīmus		nigrāverītis		nigrāverint
	pluperfect	nigrāvissem		nigrāvissēs		nigrāvisset		nigrāvissēmus		nigrāvissētis		nigrāvissent
passive	present	nigrer		nigrēris, nigrēre		nigrētur		nigrēmur		nigrēminī		nigrentur
	imperfect	nigrārer		nigrārēris, nigrārēre		nigrārētur		nigrārēmur		nigrārēminī		nigrārentur
	perfect	nigrātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	nigrātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		nigrā		—		—		nigrāte		—
	future	—		nigrātō		nigrātō		—		nigrātōte		nigrantō
passive	present	—		nigrāre		—		—		nigrāminī		—
	future	—		nigrātor		nigrātor		—		—		nigrantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		nigrāre			nigrārī			nigrāns			—
future		nigrātūrum esse			nigrātum īrī			nigrātūrus			nigrandus
perfect		nigrāvisse			nigrātum esse			—			nigrātus
future perfect		—			nigrātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		nigrātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		nigrandī		nigrandō		nigrandum		nigrandō		nigrātum		nigrātū

Etymology 2

Adjective

nigrō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of niger

References

• “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.