Etymology

negrito

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Today it means: Either of two species of bird in the genus Lessonia. Full definition →

Philippine Spanish negrito
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The story

  1. Philippine Spanish · borrowed fromnegrito“short dark-skinned person”
  2. English todayNegrito

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.