Aethiopis, pidis, fœm. g. An hearhe that inchaunters vse: by force where of riuers are dried, and loches opened.
Aethiops, pis, & Aethiopicus, ci, & Aethiopus, pi. A Mooren.* Aethiopem lauas, Thou washest a Mooren or Moore. A prouerbe applyed to him that prayseth a thing % is naught, or teacheth a foole wisedome. This prouerbe grewe of one that bought a Mooren, and thinking that the blacknesse of his skinne happened by the negligence of his first maister: he ceased not to washe the Mooren continually with suche thinges as he thought woulde make him white. By which labour and washing, hee so vered the poore slane, that hee brought him into a great sicknesse, his skinne remaining still as blacke as it was before.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
aethĭŏpĭs, ĭdis, f., = ai)qiopi/s, a species of sage, prob. Salvia Aethiopis, Linn., Ethiopian sage, Plin. 27, 4, 3, 11.
Aethĭŏps (i long, Aethīops, Sid. Carm. 11, 18), ŏpis, m., = *ai)qi/oy [the Gr. geographers derived this word from ai)/qw-w)/y, and applied it to all the sunburnt, dark-complexioned races above Egypt]. I.Subst., an Ethiopian, Plin. 2, 78, 80, 189; Vulg. 2 Par. 12, 3; ib. Act. 8, 7.—B. Appel. 1.A black man, negro: derideat Aethiopem albus, Juv. 2, 23: Aethiopas videri, Plin. 32, 10, 52, 141.—2.A coarse, dull, awkward man, a blockhead: cum hoc homine an cum stipite Aethiope, Cic. Sen. 6; Juv. 6, 600; Flor. 4, 7.—II.Adj., Ethiopian; in the masc.: Aethiopes lacus, Ov. M. 15, 320: vir Aethiops, Vulg. Act. 8, 7.