heterochthonic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not indigenous; foreign.
Example Sentences
- "I argue that Indian law exceptionalism generally follows from the autochthonic understanding of Native sovereignty and that Indian law assimilationism generally follows from the heterochthonic understanding of Native sovereignty."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, “other, different”) (corresponding to hetero-) + χθών (khthṓn, “earth, soil”) + -ic.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ἕτερος
Inflected Forms
more heterochthonic (comparative)
most heterochthonic (superlative)