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Latin
Etymology
From adventus + -īcius.
Pronunciation
Adjective
adventīcius (feminine adventīcia, neuter adventīcium); first/second-declension adjective
- foreign; strange
- unusual, extraordinary
- extrinsic
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
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- Borrowings:
References
- “adventicius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “adventicius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- adventicius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be affected by some external impulse, by external impressions: pulsu externo, adventicio agitari