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Word:

 

Word - rootword - affixes
paitomon - itom - pa-~-on~
pa.i.tu.mun. - 4 syllables

pa- = paitom
-on = paitomon
paitomon

paitomon : blacken (v.); ebonise (v.)
itom [i.tum.] : black (adj.); negro (n.)

Derivatives of itom


Glosses:
blacken
v. (change)1. black, blacken, melanise, melanize, nigrifymake or become black.; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
~ discolour, discolor, color, colourchange color, often in an undesired manner.; "The shirts discolored"
v. (change)2. blacken, char, scorch, searburn slightly and superficially so as to affect color.; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling"
~ cookery, cooking, preparationthe act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
~ burnburn with heat, fire, or radiation.; "The iron burnt a hole in my dress"
~ singe, swingeburn superficially or lightly.; "I singed my eyebrows"
ebonise
v. (change)1. ebonise, ebonizestain black to make it look like ebony.
~ article of furniture, furniture, piece of furniturefurnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy.; "they had too much furniture for the small apartment"; "there was only one piece of furniture in the room"
~ staincolor with a liquid dye or tint.; "Stain this table a beautiful walnut color"; "people knew how to stain glass a beautiful blue in the middle ages"
negro
n. (person)1. black, black person, blackamoor, negro, negroida person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).
~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soula human being.; "there was too much for one person to do"
~ africathe second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean.
~ person of color, person of colour(formal) any non-European non-white person.
~ negressa Black woman or girl.
~ black race, negro race, negroid racea dark-skinned race.
~ black mana man who is Black.
~ black womana woman who is Black.
~ colored, colored persona United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive.
~ darkey, darkie, darky(ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people.
~ jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, coon, spade(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person.; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga"
~ tom, uncle tom(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites.
~ picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny(ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child.
adj. 2. negrorelating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair.
~ blackof or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin.; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"