Also leucoethiop. [f. Gr. λευκ-ός white (see LEUCO-) + Αἰθίοπ-, Αἰθίοφ an Ethiopian.
Some have written leucœthiop, perh. influenced by the transliteration leucæ Æthiopes (for λευκοί Αἰθίοπες) in the ordinary text of Pliny, N. H., V. viii.]
An albino of a negro race. So Leucæthiopia, the constitution of a leucæthiop. Leucæthiopic a., characterized by lencæthiopia.
1819. W. Lawrence, Physiol., 287. Their peculiar constitution … may be conveniently termed, after some modern authors, leucæthiopia. Ibid., 510. The same parents at different times have leucæthiopic children, and others with the ordinary formation, and characters.
1860. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., I. 109. The people … call these leucœthiops [sic; but leucæthiops in Index] Wazungu, ‘white men.’ [Mod. Dicts. have chiefly Leucoethiop, Lencœthiop.]
