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:  

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 active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives nigrāre nigrāvisse nigrātūrum esse nigrārī nigrātum esse nigrātum īrī
participles nigrāns — nigrātūrus — nigrātus nigrandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
nigrandī nigrandō nigrandum nigrandō nigrātum nigrātū

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.
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