mongoloid

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Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Mongoloid, Mongolioid (especially in the racial sense)
• gloid (syncopated)

Etymology

From Mongol +‎ -oid.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒŋɡəˌlɔɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑŋɡəˌlɔɪd/

Noun

mongoloid (plural mongoloids)

1. (anthropology, dated) A member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples native to North Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific Oceania, the Americas, and parts of Central Asia and South Asia (and sometimes eastern Fennoscandia) – as well as their descendants in other parts of the world.
   • 1983, Bertha Pauline Dutton, American Indians of the Southwest‎, page 3:

     Both American Indians and Mongoloids have shovel-shaped incisor teeth and, at birth, display the Mongoloid spot — a blue spot above the rump, which fades within a short time; many also have the Mongoloid, or epicanthic, fold of the inner part of the upper eyelid.

   • 1991, Floyd James Davis, Who is Black?: One Nation's Definition‎, page 19:

     On the average, he found caucasoids to have the longest heads and mongoloids the roundest; mongoloids the straightest hair and negroids the most tightly curled; caucasoids the narrowest noses and negroids the broadest.

   • 1997, Masatoshi Nei, Arun K. Roychoudhury, Genetic Relationship and Evolution of Human Races, page 38:

     As before, the genetic distance between Caucasoid and Mongoloid is the smallest and that between Negroid and Mongoloid is the largest.

2. (now offensive) A person with Down syndrome.
   • 1967, W. Wolfensberger, “13: Counseling Parents of the Retarded”, in Alfred A. Baumeister, editor, Ameliorating Mental Disability: Questioning Retardation, published 2009, page 376:

     Kirman (1953) drew attention to some physicians' reluctance to offer even ordinary and routine medical care to mongoloids, whose treatment they consider a waste of time.

   • 1977, Diana Crane, The Sanctity of Social Life: Physicians' Treatment of Critically Ill Patients‎, page 97:

     It is therefore of interest to examine hospital records of mongoloid children with heart defects in order to find out how frequently operations are performed upon these children.

   • 1994, Meira Weiss, Conditional Love: Parents' Attitudes Toward Handicapped Children‎, page 102:

     The operation made each feature, itself, look O.K., but her overall looks are still those of a Mongoloid. Her facial expression immediately reveals that she is different. She still has that peculiar look. You can see she has Down's syndrome.

3. (slang, derogatory, offensive) An idiot, a retard; a general term of abuse, due to association with Down syndrome.

Usage notes

• Due to associations with old racial (and racist) theories (as with Caucasoid, Negroid), and associations with Down syndrome, the term is highly offensive.

Derived terms

• (idiot, retard): mong, mongo (British, chiefly Scottish)
• (others): Proto-Mongoloid, antimongoloid, mongoloidism

Related terms

• Mongol
• Mongolian
• mongolism

Translations

member of the racial classification

Chinese: Mandarin: 蒙古人种 (zh) (Měnggǔ rénzhǒng) French: asiatique (fr), mongoloïde (fr) Hindi: मंगोल (hi) m (maṅgol) Japanese: モンゴロイド (mongoroido), 黄色人種 (ja) (おうしょくじ​んしゅ, ōshoku jinshu), 蒙古人種 (もうこじんしゅ, Mōko jinshu) Kazakh: моңғолоид (moñğoloid) Korean: 몽골 인종 (monggol injong) Macedonian: монголои́д (mongoloíd) Mongolian: монголоид (mongoloid) Polish: mongoloid m Portuguese: mongoloide (pt) Russian: монголо́ид (ru) m (mongolóid) Tagalog: malamunggol Thai: มองโกลอยด์ (mɔng-goo-lɔɔi) Vietnamese: đại chủng Á

person with Down syndrome — see Mongol

Adjective

mongoloid (comparative more mongoloid, superlative most mongoloid)

1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) Being a member or pertaining to characteristics of this racial classification.

See also

• Australoid
• Caucasoid
• negroid

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɔŋɡoloˈʔiːt/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Adjective

mongoloid (strong nominative masculine singular mongoloider, not comparable)

1. (somewhat dated) affected by the Down syndrome; mongoloid

Usage notes

• The German adjective is not usually considered offensive, or at most very slightly so. Nevertheless, constructions with Downsyndrom are now more common.

Derived terms

• Mongo

See also

• mongolid (“of the Mongoloid race”)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mongoloïde.

Adjective

mongoloid m or n (feminine singular mongoloidă, masculine plural mongoloizi, feminine/neuter plural mongoloide)

1. mongoloid

Declension

Declension of mongoloid

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	mongoloid		mongoloidă		mongoloizi	mongoloide
	definite	mongoloidul		mongoloida		mongoloizii	mongoloidele
genitive- dative	indefinite	mongoloid		mongoloide		mongoloizi	mongoloide
	definite	mongoloidului		mongoloidei		mongoloizilor	mongoloidelor

Noun

mongoloid m (plural mongoloizi)

1. mongoloid

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mongoloid	mongoloidul		mongoloizi	mongoloizii
genitive-dative	mongoloid	mongoloidului		mongoloizi	mongoloizilor
vocative	mongoloidule			mongoloizilor

Swedish

Adjective

mongoloid (not comparable)

1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) mongoloid
2. (dated, now offensive) mongoloid (having Down syndrome)
3. (slang, offensive) idiotic, retarded

Usage notes

The singular indefinite neuter is avoided according to the references, but mongoloit is what would intuitively be expected (and is attested).

Declension

Inflection of mongoloid

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	mongoloid	—	—
neuter singular	mongoloit	—	—
plural	mongoloida	—	—
masculine plural2	mongoloide	—	—
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	mongoloide	—	—
all	mongoloida	—	—

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Noun

mongoloid c

1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) a mongoloid
2. (dated, now offensive) a mongoloid (person with Down syndrome)
3. (slang, offensive) an idiot, a retard

Declension

Declension of mongoloid

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mongoloid	mongoloids
	definite	mongoloiden	mongoloidens
plural	indefinite	mongoloider	mongoloiders
	definite	mongoloiderna	mongoloidernas

Related terms

• mongolism

See also

• Downs syndrom

References

• mongoloid in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mongoloid in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mongoloid in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)