ethnic
adjective
[ ˈɛθnɪk ]
• relating to a population subgroup (within a larger or dominant national or cultural group) with a common national or cultural tradition.
• "ethnic and cultural rights and traditions"
Similar:
racial,
race-related,
ethnological,
genetic,
inherited,
cultural,
national,
tribal,
ancestral,
traditional,
folk,
autochthonous,
• neither Christian nor Jewish; pagan or heathen.
ethnic
noun
• a member of an ethnic minority.
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a person not of the Christian or Jewish faith): via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek ethnikos ‘heathen’, from ethnos ‘nation’. Current senses date from the 19th century.
