externe

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See also: externé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French externe.

Noun

externe (plural externes)

  1. A person affiliated with an institution who does not reside there, especially a doctor or medical student in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for externe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛk.stɛʁn/
  • (file)

Adjective

externe (plural externes)

  1. external
    Antonym: interne

Derived terms

Noun

externe m or f by sense (plural externes)

  1. (education) (a school student who doesn't stay in his establishment for meals or at night)
    Antonyms: demi-pensionnaire, interne

Derived terms

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

externe

  1. inflection of extern:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Adjective

externe

  1. vocative masculine singular of externus

Portuguese

Verb

externe

  1. inflection of externar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

externe

  1. inflection of externar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

Adjective

externe

  1. definite natural masculine singular of extern