negrero
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From negro (black) + -ero. Compare Portuguese negreiro, Galician negreiro, Italian negriero, French négrier.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]negrero (feminine negrera, masculine plural negreros, feminine plural negreras)
- (relational) slave; proslavery (especially referring to black slaves)
- Synonym: (without distinguishing skin color) esclavista
Noun
[edit]negrero m (plural negreros, feminine negrera, feminine plural negreras)
- slaver, slave driver, slaveholder, slave trader (especially of black slaves)
- (by extension) slave driver (an employer who demands excessive work from the employee)
- slave ship
Further reading
[edit]- “negrero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28