alienígena

/aljeˈnixena/ · B1 · adj

alien, extraterrestrial

👽 alien + -ígena (born): born somewhere else, so a foreigner

From Latin alienigena, made of alienus (foreign, other) and -gena (born, as in indígena, native). It first meant someone born abroad, and later came to mean a being from another world. As an adjective it means strange, odd or out of place.

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