externus

Latin

Etymology

From exter (“outward, on the outside”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ekˈster.nus/, [ɛkˈs̠t̪ɛrnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈster.nus/, [ekˈst̪ɛrnus]

Adjective

externus (feminine externa, neuter externum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Classical Latin) outward, external
2. foreign, alien, exotic, strange

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	externus	externa	externum		externī	externae	externa
Genitive	externī	externae	externī		externōrum	externārum	externōrum
Dative	externō		externō		externīs
Accusative	externum	externam	externum		externōs	externās	externa
Ablative	externō	externā	externō		externīs
Vocative	externe	externa	externum		externī	externae	externa

Derived terms

• externālis (adjective)
• externātus (adjective)

Related terms

• exterior
• exterius
• exterus
• extimus
• extrēmum
• extrēmus

 

Descendants

Descendants of externus

• → Catalan: extern
• ⇒ English: external
• → French: externe
• → Galician: externo
• → Italian: esterno
• → Norwegian Bokmål: ekstern
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: ekstern
• Piedmontese: estern
• → Portuguese: externo
• → Romanian: extern
• → Spanish: externo

References

• “externus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “externus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• externus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• externus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the world of sense, the visible world: res externae
    
  • to be affected by some external impulse, by external impressions: pulsu externo, adventicio agitari
    
  • to despise earthly things: res externas or humanas despicere
    
  • to be acquainted with the history of one's own land: domestica (externa) nosse
    
  • to embrace a strange religion: religionem externam suscipere
    
  • a civil war: bellum intestinum, domesticum (opp. bellum externum)