The story
- Latin · derived fromnigrificare“to blacken”
- English todaynigrification
From Latin nigrificare (“to blacken”), from niger (“black”) + -ficare (“to make”, in comparative). See -fy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
nigrification
Today it means: The act or process of making black. Full definition →
Latin nigrificare