Negrito

[ ni-gree-toh ]

noun,plural Ne·gri·tos, Ne·gri·toes.
  1. a member of any of various Indigenous peoples of Africa, the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman Islands, and southern India.

Origin of Negrito

1
First recorded in 1760–70; from Spanish negrito, equivalent to negr(o) “black” + -ito, diminutive suffix; cf. Negrillo

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Negrito

/ (nɪˈɡriːtəʊ) /


nounplural -tos or -toes
  1. a member of any of various dwarfish Negroid peoples of SE Asia and Melanesia

Origin of Negrito

1
C19: from Spanish, diminutive of negro black

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