Dictionary

interracial en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌɪntəˈɹeɪʃəl/
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der. Proto-Germanic *rēsōder. Proto-West Germanic *rās Old English rǣs ▲ Proto-Germanic *rēsō Old Norse rásbor. Middle English race English race Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisder. Old French -ialder. Middle English -ial English -ial English racial English interracial From inter- + racial.

Meanings

1. Between or among two or more different races.
   • Like their American counterparts, German officials frowned on interracial sexual fraternization. 2005, Heide Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America, page 64:
   • In Spike Lee’s story of interracial romance, Jungle Fever (June), Wesley Snipes plays a young buppie New York architect whose affair with his Italian-American secretary (Annabella Sciorra) threatens his marriage and her relationship to her family. 1991 June 14, Ella Taylor, “Identity crises”, in The Atlantic:
   • Interracial struggle against Europid people is a para-Marxist notion.

Forms

Antonyms

intraracial

Deriveds

interraciality · interracially · interracialism · interracialize · interracialist

Translations (15)

tt расаара (between or including two or more races) · pl międzyrasowy (between or including two or more races) · ja 異人種間の (between or including two or more races) · cs mezirasový (between or including two or more races) · ru межра́совый (between or including two or more races) · pt inter-racial (between or including two or more races) · hu fajok közötti (between or including two or more races) · kk нәсіларалық (between or including two or more races) · fr interracial (between or including two or more races) · de interrassisch (between or including two or more races) · it interrazziale (between or including two or more races) · fi rotujenvälinen (between or including two or more races) · es interracial (between or including two or more races) · cmn 跨種族 /跨种族 (between or including two or more races) · ca interracial (between or including two or more races)