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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Spanish
Origin: Portuguese, from negro 'black', from Latin niger

Negro

 noun
     
Ne‧gro plural Negroes [countable] old-fashioned
a word for a black person, usually considered offensive
—negro adjective
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