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Italian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek αὐτόχθων (autókhthōn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /awˈtɔk.to.no/
- Rhymes: -ɔktono
- Hyphenation: au‧tòc‧to‧no
Adjective
autoctono (feminine autoctona, masculine plural autoctoni, feminine plural autoctone)
- native, autochthonous
Noun
autoctono m (plural autoctoni, feminine autoctona)
- native
2014, Gabrielle Galasso et al., “Persicaria senegalensis (Polygonaceae), entità nuova per la flora italiana, e chiave di identificazione delle specie del genere Persicaria in Italia”, in Natural History Sciences, volume 1, number 1, →DOI:Segue una descrizione dettagliata e una chiave di tutte le specie del genere Persicaria, autoctone ed esotiche, presenti in Italia.- A detailed description and a key to all the Italian species of the genus Persicaria, natives and aliens, is provided.
Further reading
- autoctono in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana