"externus" meaning in Latin

See externus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [ɛkˈstɛr.nʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ekˈstɛr.nus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From exter (“outward, on the outside”). Head templates: {{la-adj|externus}} externus (feminine externa, neuter externum); first/second-declension adjective Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|externus}} Forms: externa [feminine], externum [neuter], no-table-tags [table-tags], externus [masculine, nominative, singular], externa [feminine, nominative, singular], externum [neuter, nominative, singular], externī [masculine, nominative, plural], externae [feminine, nominative, plural], externa [neuter, nominative, plural], externī [genitive, masculine, singular], externae [feminine, genitive, singular], externī [genitive, neuter, singular], externōrum [genitive, masculine, plural], externārum [feminine, genitive, plural], externōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], externō [dative, masculine, singular], externae [dative, feminine, singular], externō [dative, neuter, singular], externīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], externum [accusative, masculine, singular], externam [accusative, feminine, singular], externum [accusative, neuter, singular], externōs [accusative, masculine, plural], externās [accusative, feminine, plural], externa [accusative, neuter, plural], externō [ablative, masculine, singular], externā [ablative, feminine, singular], externō [ablative, neuter, singular], externīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], externe [masculine, singular, vocative], externa [feminine, singular, vocative], externum [neuter, singular, vocative], externī [masculine, plural, vocative], externae [feminine, plural, vocative], externa [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. (Classical Latin) outward, external Tags: Classical-Latin, adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-externus-la-adj-BFsavDhU Categories (other): Classical Latin, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 70 30 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 93 7
  2. foreign, alien, exotic, strange Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2
    Sense id: en-externus-la-adj-Dx1cLa7i
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: externālis [adjective], externātus [adjective] Related terms: exterior, exterius, exterus, extimus, extrēmum, extrēmus

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "externālis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "externātus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "extern"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "external"
    },
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "externe"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "externo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "esterno"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "lang_code": "nb",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "ekstern"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "lang_code": "nn",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "ekstern"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Piedmontese",
      "lang_code": "pms",
      "word": "estern"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "externo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "extern"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "externo"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From exter (“outward, on the outside”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "externa",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externum",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-adecl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externus",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externōrum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externārum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externōrum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externīs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externam",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externōs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externīs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externe",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "externus"
      },
      "expansion": "externus (feminine externa, neuter externum); first/second-declension adjective",
      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "externus"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "exterior"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "exterius"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "exterus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "extimus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "extrēmum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "extrēmus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Classical Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "outward, external"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en-externus-la-adj-BFsavDhU",
      "links": [
        [
          "outward",
          "outward"
        ],
        [
          "external",
          "external"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Classical Latin) outward, external"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin",
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "foreign, alien, exotic, strange"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "id": "en-externus-la-adj-Dx1cLa7i",
      "links": [
        [
          "foreign",
          "foreign"
        ],
        [
          "alien",
          "alien"
        ],
        [
          "exotic",
          "exotic"
        ],
        [
          "strange",
          "strange"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɛkˈstɛr.nʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ekˈstɛr.nus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "externus"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 3-syllable words",
    "Latin adjectives",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin first and second declension adjectives",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Requests for quotations in Latin"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "externālis"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "externātus"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "extern"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "external"
    },
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "externe"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "externo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "esterno"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "lang_code": "nb",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "ekstern"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "lang_code": "nn",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "ekstern"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Piedmontese",
      "lang_code": "pms",
      "word": "estern"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "externo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "extern"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "externo"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From exter (“outward, on the outside”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "externa",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externum",
      "head_nr": 1,
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-adecl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externus",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externōrum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externārum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externōrum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externīs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externam",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externōs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externās",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externīs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externe",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externae",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "externa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "externus"
      },
      "expansion": "externus (feminine externa, neuter externum); first/second-declension adjective",
      "name": "la-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "externus"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "exterior"
    },
    {
      "word": "exterius"
    },
    {
      "word": "exterus"
    },
    {
      "word": "extimus"
    },
    {
      "word": "extrēmum"
    },
    {
      "word": "extrēmus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Classical Latin"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "outward, external"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "outward",
          "outward"
        ],
        [
          "external",
          "external"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Classical Latin) outward, external"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin",
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "foreign, alien, exotic, strange"
      ],
      "head_nr": 1,
      "links": [
        [
          "foreign",
          "foreign"
        ],
        [
          "alien",
          "alien"
        ],
        [
          "exotic",
          "exotic"
        ],
        [
          "strange",
          "strange"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɛkˈstɛr.nʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ekˈstɛr.nus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "externus"
}

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  "called_from": "page/1713/20221215",
  "msg": "later head without list of senses,template node #, externus/Latin",
  "path": [
    "externus"
  ],
  "section": "Latin",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "externus",
  "trace": ""
}

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