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Indo-European language of the Italic branch
The English slur now called the “N‑word” originated from Latin niger → Spanish/Portuguese negro and appears in English texts from the 16th–17th centuries as a neutral descriptor; lexicographers date t...
The word "nigger" carries a long history of symbolic and physical violence, serving for centuries as a tool of exclusion, humiliation, and justification for discrimination against Black people . Becau...
The term in the question is an extreme racial slur historically directed at Black people and regarded by major dictionaries as "perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English" , an...
The word “nigger” is widely recorded as an extremely offensive racial slur directed at Black people and is described by major reference sources as “perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial s...
The word nigger traces etymologically to Latin niger (“black”) and entered English through forms like negro, with the term’s meaning shifting from a neutral descriptor to a highly charged epithet by t...
The category "gentleman" began as a marker of birth and clan—derived from Latin gentilis and Old French gentilhomme—before evolving into a cultural ideal that blended lineage, martial role and, later,...
The slang form nigga derives historically from the racial slur nigger, itself tracing back through English borrowings of Spanish/Portuguese negro from Latin niger “black,” and has been attested in dia...
The single-word question "Is?" reduces to a request for the meaning and grammatical role of the word "is": across standard dictionaries and usage guides, "is" is the third-person singular present tens...