négritude
See also: negritude
French
Etymology
Coined by Aimé Césaire in 1935, from nègre (“Negro”) + -itude.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ne.ɡʁi.tyd/
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Noun
négritude f (uncountable)
Descendants
- → English: negritude
Further reading
- “négritude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Reilly, Brian J. "Négritude's Contretemps: The Coining and Reception of Aimé Césaire's Neologism." Philological Quarterly 99.4 (2020): 377–98.