exterior

/ɪkˈstɪɹiə/ik-STIH-ree-ur

/ɪkˈstɪɹiɚ/ik-STIH-ree-ur

Meaningmore outside

Common meaning: the outside of something

exteroutside, foreignLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 707 · scan
iorcomparative ending: more

Journey through time

Latinexterior‘outer’source
Frenchexterieur‘outer’source
Englishexterior‘the outside of something’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

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Origin: Built on Latin exterus ‘outside, foreign’.

Roots

exterus, -a, -um Latin “outside, foreign”

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