extraño

/e(ɡ)sˈtɾaɲo/ · A1 · adj

strange, unusual, odd, weird, bizarre, uncanny, rare, peculiar, freaky, freakish, freak, curious

👽 extraño = English strange + extraneous, both from Latin extraneus (outside)

Latin extraneus meant from outside. Old French turned it into estrange, which English shortened to strange. Spanish kept the ex- and added ñ. Same root gives stranger and extraneous, so odd and foreign are one idea: not from here.

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