The word Negro (plural, Negroes) was used in the English-speaking world to refer to a person of black ancestry or appearance. Negro denotes "black" in Spanish and Portuguese, derived from the ancient Latin word niger, meaning black, which itself is probably from a Proto-Indo-European root *nek-, "to be dark", akin to *nok-, night.
Niger means black in Latin? I wonder if that is how the word.............Oh never mind.