In the English language, the word nigger is an ethnic slur, usually directed at black people. The word originated as a neutral term referring to people with black skin, as a variation of the Spanish and Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger (black).tymologically, negro, noir, negre, nÃ¨gre and nigger ultimately derive from, nigrum the stem of The latin (niger) (black [pronounced] ËniÉ¡er, which in every other grammatical, case grammatical, gender and grammatical number besides nominative masculine, singular is- , nigr the r is). trilled
The Senate &. the People of Rome. The letters SPQR stood for Senatus Populus Que Romanusa - the Senate and the People of Rome. After defeating Tarquin, the last Roman king, the people started a new type of government, a republic. A republic is a type of government whereby people elect officials to represent them in government.
We may assume SPQR stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus, but what exactly does the Latin mean? The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature says that the populus Romanus of the abbreviation is the Roman citizenry eligible to be soldiers and their families, but that they are distinct from the quirites.