/ee'thee oh"pee euhn/ , adj.
1. of or pertaining to Ethiopia or to its inhabitants.
2. belonging to the part of Africa south of the equator.
3. Zoogeog. belonging to a geographical division comprising Africa south of the tropic of Cancer, the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Madagascar.
4. Archaic. black African.
n.
5. a native of Ethiopia.
6. a member of any of various supposedly dark-skinned peoples regarded by the ancients as coming from a country lying south of Egypt.
7. Archaic. a black African.
[ 1545-55; ETHIOPI(A) + -AN ]