Caucasianadj.

Caucasian (adj.)1807, from Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas; applied to the "white" race 1795 (in German) by German anthropologist Johann Blumenbach, because its supposed ancestral homeland lay there; since abandoned as a historical/anthropological term. (See Aryan).Caucasian (n.)"resident or native of the Caucasus," 1843; see Caucasus + -ian. Meaning "one of the \\'white\\' race" is from 1958 (earlier Caucasoid, 1956).