Dictionary

Negrito en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Philippine Spanish negrito (“short dark-skinned person”), from negro (“black person; dark-skinned person”) + -ito (“small; short; little”, diminutive suffix).

Meanings

1. A member of a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia.
   • The Negritos and the Semangs agree very closely in physical characteristics with each other and with the Andaman Islanders, while they differ in a marked manner from every Papuan race. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 452:

Forms

Translations (7)

fi negriitti (member of a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia) · cmn 尼格利陀人 (member of a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia) · tl Negrito (member of a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia) · hy նեգրիտոս (member of a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia) · cmn 矮黑人 (member of a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia) · ru негрито́с (member of a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia) · es negrito (member of a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia)