alienigenus Latin · revision 34571

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [a.li.eːˈnɪ.ɡɛ.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [a.li.eˈniː.d͡ʒe.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aliēnigenus''' (feminine aliēnigena, neuter aliēnigenum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|aliēnus|-genus|t1=belonging to others|t2=born]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) [[m|la|aliēnus]] is derived from [[m|la|alius|t=other]],^(de Vaan 2008) which goes back to [[itc-pro|*al-jo-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂el-io-|t=another]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lucretius uses it first, of things made of matter of a different kind: food would seem to consist of alien things.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Valerius Maximus it means “foreign”, of examples, studies, cities and a woman of foreign blood, as opposed to native ones,^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) and Seneca speaks of foreign rites.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Columella uses it of plants grown from seed brought from elsewhere and of chicks hatched from another bird's eggs.^(OLD 2012) An inscription forbids anyone to bring a stranger's body into a tomb.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ Late writers use it of foreign peoples and lands;^(TLL) Ammianus speaks of joining one's own forces with foreign ones.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of matter of a different kind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca speaks of foreign rites.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of plants and of chicks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus uses it of foreign forces.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|foreign|alt=Foreign]], from or of another country; imported, [[m|en|exotic]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of different or unfamiliar origin, [[m|en|alien]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # (of things) Made of alien matter, different in kind.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aliēnigena]]

+ * [[aliēnus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}