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Latin
Etymology
From exter + secus.
Pronunciation
Adverb
extrīnsecus (not comparable)
- From without, from abroad
- externally
- Synonyms: foras, forīs
- Antonyms: intro, intrā, penitus
- extrinsically
Adjective
extrīnsecus (feminine extrīnseca, neuter extrīnsecum); first/second-declension adjective
- outer
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “extrinsecus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “extrinsecus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- extrinsecus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- extraneous causes: causae extrinsecus allatae (opp. in ipsa re positae)