exter

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exter m (plural exters, diminutive extertje n)

From Proto-Italic *eksteros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros, from *h₁eǵʰs (whence ex); equivalent to ex (“out of, from within”) +‎ -ter (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

exter (feminine extera, neuter exterum, comparative exterior, superlative extrēmus or extimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

on the outside, outward, external, outer, far, remote
Synonyms: adventīcius, aliēnus, barbaricus, barbarus, exōticus, extrāneus, peregrīnus, prosēlytus
of another country; foreign, strange
Synonym: extrārius
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.350:
  “[...] Et nōs fās extera quaerere rēgna.”
  “[It is] right for us, too, to seek a foreign realm.”
  (The context can be understood as someplace “external to” or “far from” one’s homeland as well as “foreign” or “strange”.)

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First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	exter	extera	exterum	exterī	exterae	extera
Genitive	exterī	exterae	exterī	exterōrum	exterārum	exterōrum
Dative	exterō	exterae	exterō	exterīs
Accusative	exterum	exteram	exterum	exterōs	exterās	extera
Ablative	exterō	exterā	exterō	exterīs
Vocative	exter	extera	exterum	exterī	exterae	extera

Descendants of exter in other languages

“exter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“exter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
exter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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