ex-slave

English

Etymology

From ex- +‎ slave.

Noun

ex-slave (plural ex-slaves)

1. A former or emancipated slave.

   Near-synonym: freedman

   • 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, “Introduction”, in Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 12:

     […] nearly half the Appalachian ex-slaves had endured fifteen years or more of enslavement, and they were old enough to form and to retain oral histories.

Translations

a former or emancipated slave

• French: ancien esclave m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐξελεύθερος m (exeleútheros), ἀπελεύθερος m (apeleútheros); ἐξελευθέρα f (exeleuthéra), ἀπελευθέρα f (apeleuthéra)

• Icelandic: leysingi m, frelsingi m
• Italian: liberto (it) m, affrancato (it) m, emancipato (it) m
• Latin: lībertus m, līberta f
• Polish: eks-niewolnik m
• Russian: вольноотпу́щенник (ru) m (volʹnootpúščennik)
• Swahili: huru