apartheid
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid (1929 in a South African socio-political context), from Afrikaans apart + suffix -heid, cognate of English -hood.
Pronunciation- (RP, strictly) IPA: /əˈpɑːtheɪt/, /əˈpɑːthaɪt/
- (US, strictly) enPR: ə-pärtʹhāt, ə-pärtʹhīt, IPA: /əˈpɑɹtheɪt/, /əˈpɑɹthaɪt/
- (America, laxly) enPR: ə-pärʹtīd, IPA: /əˈpɑɹ.taɪd/
apartheid
- (South Africa, historical) The policy of racial separation in South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
- Synonyms: plural relations
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, pages 127-128:
- The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever.
- (by extension) Any similar policy of racial separation/segregation and discrimination, particularly when in favor of a minority rule.
- The Apartheid Convention conferred universal jurisdiction to the state signatories to prosecute those who commit apartheid.
- 1963, Justice William O. Douglas, concurring, Lombard v. Louisiana (373 U.S. 267):
- When the doors of a business are open to the public, they must be open to all regardless of race if apartheid is not to become engrained in our public […] .
- (by extension) A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
apartheid (apartheids, present participle apartheiding; simple past and past participle apartheided)
- To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.
- French: apartheid
- German: Apartheid
- Italian: apartheid
- Portuguese: apartheid
- Russian: апартеи́д
- Spanish: apartheid
- German: Apartheid
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