Английский Этимологический словарь - race (2)

- "people of common descent," 1520, originally of wines with characteristic flavor, also "group of people with common occupation," and "generation;" from M.Fr. razza "race, breed, lineage," possibly from It., of unknown origin. Modern meaning of "one of the great divisions of mankind based on physical peculiarities" is from 1774. Racial is first attested 1862. Racist is 1932 as a noun (1938 as an adjective), racism is first attested 1936; both originally in the context of Nazi theories, but they replaced earlier words, racialism (1907) and racialist (1917), both often used at first in a South African context.