ethnic

adjracial, cultural

Word Origin & History

late 14c., Scottish, "heathen, pagan," and having that sense first in English; as an adj. from late 15c. from Latin ethnicus, Greek ethnikos, from ethnos "band of people living together, nation, people," properly "people of one's own kind," from PIE *swedh-no-, suffixed form of root *s(w)e- (see idiom).

In Septuagint, Greek ta ethne translates Hebrew goyim, plural of goy "nation," especially of non-Israelites, hence "Gentile nation" (see goy). Sense of "peculiar to a race or nation" is attested from 1851, a return to the word's original meaning; that of "different cultural groups" is 1935; and that of "racial, ...

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All other declarations prior to this were but for dynasties, or were ethnic at most.

It is a genuine instance of deterioration in ethnic religion.

It is only the validity of the ethnic explanation which we deny.

How shall we solve this enigma of ethnic purity, and yet impurity, of type?

The Archological Ages have not necessarily an ethnic significance.

Ethnic minorities ...

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