Ethiopians

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. People who are natives or inhabitants of Ethiopia, a country in the Horn of Africa
2. Individuals who originate from or hold citizenship in Ethiopia, located in northeastern Africa
3. Residents or natives of Ethiopia, the ancient African nation also known as Abyssinia

Etymology: "Ethiopians" is the plural of "Ethiopian," which comes from Greek "Aithiops," literally "burnt-face," from "aithein" (to burn) and "ops" (face). The Greeks used the name for dark-skinned peoples of the south and east, not for one nation, and Homer already speaks of the Aithiopes as a distant people at the edge of the known world. The name reached English through Latin "Aethiops," and it was later applied to the people and country we now call Ethiopia.