Standard Lemma guide

ethno-

prefix · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ɛθnoʊ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

prefix

Meaning 1

race; ethnicity (in the sense of classification of human beings).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔθνος (éthnos, “a company, later a people, nation”).

Across languages

Translations

57 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Albanian: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Aragonese: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Armenian: էթնո- (ētʻno-) — race, ethnicity
  • Asturian: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Azerbaijani: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Bashkir: этно- (etno-) — race, ethnicity
  • Basque: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Belarusian: этна- (etna-) — race, ethnicity
  • Bulgarian: етно- (etno-) — race, ethnicity
  • Catalan: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Cebuano: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Czech: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Danish: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Dutch: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Esperanto: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Estonian: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Finnish: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • French: ethno- — race, ethnicity
  • Galician: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Georgian: ეთნო- (etno-) — race, ethnicity
  • German: ethno- — race, ethnicity
  • Greek: εθνο- (ethno-) — race, ethnicity
  • Hebrew: אֶתְנוֹ־ — race, ethnicity
  • Hungarian: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Ido: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Indonesian: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Interlingua: ethno- — race, ethnicity
  • Italian: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Kazakh: этно- (étno-) — race, ethnicity
  • Northern Kurdish: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Kyrgyz: этно- (etno-) — race, ethnicity
  • Latin: ethno- — race, ethnicity
  • Latvian: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Lithuanian: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Macedonian: етно- (etno-) — race, ethnicity
  • Maltese: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Norwegian Bokmål: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Occitan: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Polish: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Portuguese: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Romanian: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Romanian: етно- (etno-) — race, ethnicity
  • Russian: этно- (etno-) — race, ethnicity
  • Serbo-Croatian: етно- — race, ethnicity
  • Serbo-Croatian: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Sicilian: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Slovak: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Slovene: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Spanish: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Swedish: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Tagalog: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Turkish: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Turkmen: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Ukrainian: етно- (etno-) — race, ethnicity
  • Uzbek: etno- — race, ethnicity
  • Yiddish: עטנאָ־ (etno-) — race, ethnicity