Latin

Alternative forms

• exterus

Adjective

exter m ‎(feminine extera, neuter exterum); first/second declension

1. On the outside, outward, external, outer.
2. Of another country; foreign, strange.

Inflection

First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er.

• comparative: exterior, superlative: extrēmus or extimus

Synonyms

• (foreign, strange): adventīcius, aliēnus, barbaricus, barbarus, exōticus, extrāneus, peregrīnus, prosēlytus
• (outward, external): extrārius

Derived terms

Related terms

• extrā

Descendants

• Italian: estero
• Ladin: ester

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “exter”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Luxembourgish

Verb

exter

1. second-person singular imperative of exteren