noir
Old French
/nojr/
noun
Definitions
- black (color)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin nigrum (black).
Origin
Latin
nigrum
Gloss
black
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
黒
Emoji
🐃 🐈⬛ 🕋 🖤 🦓
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nigger English
- nigrite English
- Nigrinus Latin
- capellus magnus niger Latin
- capellus niger Latin
- galerum nigrum Latin
- nigellus Latin
- niger Latin
- nigredo Latin
- nigriceps Latin
- nigricollis Latin
- nigricostus Latin
- nigrifrons Latin
- nigrimanus Latin
- nigripalpus Latin
- nigripennis Latin
- nigrirostris Latin
- nigritarsis Latin
- nigrithorax Latin
- nigritia Latin
- nigrities Latin
- nigriventris Latin
- nigrofasciatus Latin
- nigrolineatus Latin
- nigromaculatus Latin
- nigropunctatus Latin
- nigrum Latin
- seminiger Latin
- negro Italian
- nero Italian
- noir French
- nègre French
- negro Spanish, Castilian
- *nókʷts Proto-Indo-European
- negro Portuguese
- neir Old French
- noirsure Old French
- nigra Esperanto
- negre Catalan, Valencian
- negru Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- Nièrmont Norman
- nièr Norman
- noir Middle French
- negro Old Portuguese
- negru Aromanian
- negre Occitan
- nair Romansh
- ner Romansh
- negru Asturian
- neri Friulian
- negre Old Occitan
- nìuru Sicilian
- néigro Ligurian
- noer Walloon
- noi Bourguignon
- niro Neapolitan
- nìgaro Istriot
- nêr Franco-Provençal
- naïr Gallo
- negru Istro-Romanian
- negru Megleno-Romanian