Ethiop

American  

[ee-thee-op] / ˈi θiˌɒp /

Also Ethiope

adjective

1. Ethiopian.

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Ethiop British  

/ ˈiːθɪˌəʊp, ˈiːθɪˌɒp /

adjective

1. archaic words for Black

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Etymology

Origin of Ethiop

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin Aethiops < Greek Aithíops

Example Sentences

At death Cassiopea was made a constellation of thirteen stars. ... that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs, and their powers offended.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Starred Ethiop Queen = Cassiope, wife of King Cepheus, who was placed among the stars.

From MacMillan's Reading Books Book V by Anonymous

Also of old time had mighty Antilochos this mind within him, who died for his father's sake, when he abode the murderous onset of Memnon, the leader of the Ethiop hosts.

From The Extant Odes of Pindar by Pindar

Can the Ethiop change his skin,  23 Or the leopard his spots?

From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Smith, George Adam, Sir

Proud in the Syrian sun,      In gold and purple sheen,      The dusky Ethiop queen    Smiled on King Solomon.

From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes