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発音

• IPA: /ˈnaɪd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

名詞

niger (uncountable)

1. An Ethiopian herb, Guizotia abyssinica, grown for its seed and edible oil.

   Synonyms: noog, noug, nug

参照

• “Niger, n.2.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2003.

アナグラム

• re-nig, Reign, Negri, reign, ringe, renig, Grine, Reing, Grein, nigre

語源

Uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare, naked”) if this root is assumed also to be the source of *nókʷts (“night”) (Latin nox), thus “black” would attest the intermediate meaning between “bare” and “night”. Possibly cognate with Umbrian niru (“(possibly) dark, black”), though this form (thought to be accusative singular) is not mentioned in De Vaan.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈnɪ.ɡɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈniː.d͡ʒer]

形容詞

niger (feminine nigra, neuter nigrum, superlative nigerrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. wan, shining black (as opposed to āter, dull black)

   Nigrum in candida vertere.

   To turn black into white.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:niger.
2. bad; evil; ill-omened

使用する際の注意点

• Widely used as a specific epithet.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

同意語

• (black): fuscus

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “shining white”): candidus

派生語

派生した語

参考

参照

• Buchi, Éva; Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–), “*/ˈnɪɡr-u/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.

Further reading

• “niger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “niger”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “niger”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “niger”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “niger”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray