Negrito

American  

[ni-gree-toh] / nɪˈgri toʊ /

noun

plural

Negritos, Negritoes

1. a member of any of various Indigenous peoples of Africa, the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman Islands, and southern India.

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Negrito British  

/ nɪˈɡriːtəʊ /

noun

1. a member of any of various dwarfish Negroid peoples of SE Asia and Melanesia

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Etymology

Origin of Negrito

First recorded in 1760–70; from Spanish negrito, equivalent to negr(o) “black” + -ito, diminutive suffix; cf. Negrillo ( def. )

Example Sentences

This includes speaking with musicians Bill Callahan and Fantastic Negrito, who both covered the song.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2019

One particular highlight came courtesy of Oakland-based African American roots musician Fantastic Negrito, who served up a thoroughly haunting version of Lead Belly’s folk-blues classic, “In the Pines.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2017

Xavier Dphrepaulezz, the singer who leads Fantastic Negrito, reaches back to both the raw Chicago blues of Howlin’ Wolf and its rock extrapolations by way of Led Zeppelin and Captain Beefheart.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2016

On Thursday, the judges are announcing the winner is Oakland, California-based music project Fantastic Negrito with a performance recorded in a freight elevator behind a work bench desk.

From Washington Times • Feb. 12, 2015

The Semang Negritos persisted as hunter-gatherers trading with neighboring farmers but adopted an Austroasiatic language from those farmers—much as, we shall see, Philippine Negrito and African Pygmy hunter-gatherers adopted languages from their farmer trading partners.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond